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Curious Landmarks

Monument Rocks

Oakley, Kansas

Chalk towers and arches filled with marine fossils rise from western Kansas where an inland sea vanished millions of years ago.

Haunted Locations

Historic Squirrel Cage Jail

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Prison cells once rotated inside this Victorian jail like a human-sized carousel controlled by a hand crank.

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

Perry’s Nut House

Belfast, Maine

Since 1927, Perry's Nut House has mixed candy and souvenirs with a stuffed gorilla, giant hides, trick mirrors, vintage roadside spectacle, and something advertised simply as…

Curious Landmarks

Center of the Universe

Wallace, Idaho

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

Strange Museums

Philippi Mummies

Philippi, West Virginia

Two human bodies preserved in 1888 by an amateur experimenter still lie in glass-topped coffins inside a small West Virginia historical museum.

Natural Oddities

Meramec Caverns

Sullivan, Missouri

A classic Route 66 cave attraction leads through enormous chambers and colorful formations.

Historic Oddities

Skull and Bones Tomb

New Haven, Connecticut

A nearly windowless brownstone known as the Tomb houses Yale's oldest and most mythologized secret society.

Abandoned Places

Monson Center

Hollis, New Hampshire

Walk the cellar holes and vanished streets of an eighteenth-century ghost town.

Roadside Attractions

Center of the Universe

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Stand on one small circle above Tulsa's railroad tracks and your own voice returns with a peculiar metallic echo that sounds dramatically different from only a…

Strange Museums

New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

New Orleans, Louisiana

Opium, patent medicines, antique surgical tools, old prescriptions, anesthetics, and officially labeled questionable medical practices fill a nineteenth-century apothecary.

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.