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Curious Landmarks

Wisconsin Concrete Park

Phillips, Wisconsin

A retired lumberjack covered a property with 237 concrete figures built from wire, broken glass, bottles, found objects, and an apparently unlimited supply of determination.

Strange Museums

City Museum

St. Louis, Missouri

A former shoe factory became a maze of slides, tunnels, salvaged architecture, and rooftop oddities.

Strange Museums

Mercer Museum

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

A six-story concrete castle crams thousands of preindustrial objects into rooms, balconies, niches, and a towering atrium where boats and horse-drawn vehicles hang overhead.

Historic Oddities

Landlocked Steamboat Ticonderoga

Shelburne, Vermont

A 220-foot passenger steamboat somehow ended up sitting on dry land two miles from Lake Champlain, where visitors can now walk through all four decks.

Curious Landmarks

Great Stalacpipe Organ

Luray, Virginia

Deep inside Luray Caverns, an organ console sends electronic mallets across acres of cave to strike tuned stalactites and turn the cavern itself into a musical…

Strange Museums

John Hampson’s Bug Art

St. Johnsbury, Vermont

Thousands upon thousands of real beetles, moth parts, and insect wings were arranged into elaborate symmetrical mosaics that look decorative until viewers realize what they are…

Strange Museums

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

Seattle, Washington

A working waterfront souvenir shop doubles as a free museum packed with mummies, strange animal specimens, vintage machines, and more than a century of collected oddities.

Strange Museums

Mütter Museum

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anatomical specimens, skeletons, preserved tissue, medical instruments, models, and unusual case histories fill a museum that still feels like a nineteenth-century medical cabinet.

Roadside Attractions

Ninigret Park Trolls

Charlestown, Rhode Island

Two enormous trolls made from reclaimed wood sit among ponds, boulders, and trees inside Ninigret Park, turning a public recreation area into a giant scavenger hunt.

Strange Museums

SKELETONS Museum

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

More than five hundred real skeletons fill an Oklahoma City museum where whales hang overhead and animals are stripped down to the architecture hidden beneath their…

Giant Objects

Dinah the Pink Dinosaur

Vernal, Utah

A forty-foot pink dinosaur wearing a giant grin has greeted travelers entering Vernal since 1958 and somehow became historic enough for the National Register.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube

Knoxville, Tennessee

A ten-foot-tall, 1,200-pound Rubik's Cube created for the 1982 World's Fair now sits inside the Knoxville Convention Center like a puzzle for giants.