Moments in Copy Editing

Came across this the other day:

Let's look at four of the coolest, campiest and downright otherworldly attractions that make for a great side trip.

I scratched my head: "coolest, campiest and downright otherworldly"? It took me a while to decide that, indeed, this is a parallel problem. It seems to be setting up a list of adjectives in superlative form (est), but then the thing after the "and" is not superlative.

I changed it to:

Let's look at four of the coolest and campiest -- some downright otherworldly attractions that make for a great side trip.

Better? I think so. Still, there's something unsettling about this one ...