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Curious Landmarks

Stonehenge II

Ingram, Texas

A Texas replica of Stonehenge stands at roughly 90 percent of the original monument's height, joined by two enormous Easter Island-style heads because one imitation landmark…

Giant Objects

The Big Duck

Flanders, New York

A 1931 poultry shop shaped like a giant duck, complete with glass eyes and an orange bill.

Roadside Attractions

W’eel Turtle

Dunseith, North Dakota

More than two thousand steel wheel rims were welded into an enormous turtle whose open metal shell looks part animal, part industrial machine.

Natural Oddities

Periodic Spring

Afton, Wyoming

A cold mountain spring repeatedly surges from a limestone opening, slows or stops, then starts again in a natural cycle that can repeat within minutes.

Curious Landmarks

Monument to a Prostitute

Lusk, Wyoming

A lonely prairie monument honors Mother Featherlegs, a frontier madam whose ruffled underwear inspired her nickname.

Roadside Attractions

Papermoon Diner

Baltimore, Maryland

Mannequins, dolls, toys, sculptures, kitchen tools, vintage objects, and brightly colored installations turn a functioning Baltimore diner into a constantly mutating art environment.

Historic Oddities

Oscar-Zero

Cooperstown, North Dakota

An elevator descends roughly sixty feet beneath the prairie to an intact Minuteman missile launch control center sealed behind a massive blast door.

Frog mural by artist Robert Dafford in Rayne, Louisiana, the Frog Capital of the World

Roadside Attractions

Rayne’s Frog Army

Rayne, Louisiana

The Frog Capital of the World did not stop at a nickname. Painted concrete frogs, giant frog art, murals, a live frog pond, and amphibian mascots…

Giant Objects

Dakota Thunder

Jamestown, North Dakota

A 26-foot-tall concrete bison weighing roughly sixty tons has loomed over Jamestown since 1959.

Roadside Attractions

Blue Whale of Catoosa

Catoosa, Oklahoma

An eighty-foot blue whale rises from a roadside pond, complete with a walk-in mouth, ladders, portholes, and the cheerful expression of a concrete sea monster stranded…

Natural Oddities

Dismals Canyon

Phil Campbell, Alabama

Thousands of tiny glowworm-like larvae illuminate the walls of this shadowy Alabama sandstone canyon.

Giant Objects

Paul Bunyan Statue

Bangor, Maine

Bangor's enormous plaid lumberjack weighs about 3,700 pounds, towers 31 feet above Main Street, and stands over a time capsule scheduled to remain sealed until 2084.