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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.

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.

Roadside Attractions

Wall Drug’s Giant Dinosaur and Jackalope

Wall, South Dakota

Wall Drug surrounds a working drugstore with an eighty-foot dinosaur, a giant rideable jackalope, an animatronic T. rex, and enough roadside kitsch for an entire town.

Historic Oddities

Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine

Beckley, West Virginia

Visitors board a low mining vehicle and travel about 1,500 feet underground through a real former coal mine guided by veteran miners.

Roadside Attractions

Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park

Wilson, North Carolina

Thirty enormous kinetic sculptures made from road signs, bicycle parts, industrial scraps, reflectors, fans, and gears turn a downtown park into a wind-powered mechanical carnival.

Natural Oddities

Ringing Rocks Park

Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania

Strike the right boulders in this seven-acre field and solid diabase answers with metallic notes more like bells than ordinary stone.

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

Andres Institute of Art

Brookline, New Hampshire

A former ski hill is now a forest full of more than a hundred sculptures.

Abandoned Places

Old Car City USA

White, Georgia

More than four thousand vintage vehicles rust beneath trees along miles of wooded junkyard trails.

Curious Landmarks

Center of the Universe

Wallace, Idaho

A decorated manhole cover marks the exact center of everything, according to the town of Wallace.

Giant Objects

Big Well

Greensburg, Kansas

A spiral staircase descends into a 109-foot hand-dug well built with picks, pulleys, barrels, and an astonishing amount of nerve.

Roadside Attractions

Jackalope Square

Douglas, Wyoming

Douglas turned a taxidermy gag involving a jackrabbit and deer antlers into a town identity complete with giant statues, hunting licenses, and Jackalope Square.