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Historic Oddities

H. L. Hunley

North Charleston, South Carolina

Eight men turned a hand crank to propel this iron submarine into combat in 1864. It sank an enemy warship, vanished with its crew, and remained…

Roadside Attractions

Topiary Garden

Columbus, Ohio

Fifty-four life-sized topiary figures recreate a famous nineteenth-century painting in three dimensions, complete with people, animals, boats, and a pond.

Natural Oddities

Goblin Valley State Park

Green River, Utah

Thousands of squat sandstone figures crowd a Utah valley so densely that the landscape looks less eroded than populated by an army of stone creatures.

Natural Oddities

The Lost Sea Adventure

Sweetwater, Tennessee

Deep inside Craighead Caverns, visitors descend through the earth and board a boat on what the attraction calls America's largest underground lake.

Roadside Attractions

Turtle Boy

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester's beloved Turtle Boy fountain pairs a nude bronze youth with an enormous sea turtle in one of New England's most gloriously awkward public sculptures.

Natural Oddities

Elephant Rocks

Belleview, Missouri

Enormous granite boulders line up like a parade of elephants in this unusual Missouri state park.

Giant Objects

Dakota Thunder

Jamestown, North Dakota

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

Curious Landmarks

Biloxi Lighthouse

Biloxi, Mississippi

A cast-iron lighthouse stands improbably in the median of a busy coastal highway.

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…

Natural Oddities

Lava Tree State Monument

Pahoa, Hawaii

A lava flow wrapped around living trees, leaving a forest of hollow stone molds after the wood vanished.

Natural Oddities

Sea Lion Caves

Florence, Oregon

An elevator drops visitors into an enormous natural basalt sea cave where wild Steller sea lions gather beside the crashing Pacific.

Historic Oddities

George Washington’s Bathtub

Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

A tiny stone-lined pool in a public park commemorates the young George Washington's visits to the warm mineral springs, although the present "bathtub" is a later…