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Curious Landmarks

Mount Trashmore Park

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach turned a 640,000-ton pile of garbage into a sixty-foot mountain and public park, then gave the former landfill the most honest name possible.

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…

Haunted Locations

Villisca Axe Murder House

Villisca, Iowa

An ordinary white farmhouse preserves the setting of an unsolved 1912 mass murder and welcomes tours and overnight guests.

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.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Pistachio

Alamogordo, New Mexico

A 30-foot pistachio stands guard over a working orchard north of Alamogordo.

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.

Natural Oddities

Ringing Rocks

Whitehall, Montana

Strike these boulders lightly and the hillside answers with metallic chimes.

Curious Landmarks

Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk

Riverside, Iowa

A small Iowa town claims to be the birthplace of a fictional starship captain who will not be born for centuries.

Giant Objects

Old Ben and the Giant Sycamore Stump

Kokomo, Indiana

A taxidermied record-size steer shares a park pavilion with the enormous hollow stump of an ancient sycamore.

Natural Oddities

Fantasy Canyon

Vernal, Utah

A tiny patch of Utah desert is packed with impossibly delicate sandstone creatures, arches, fins, faces, and forms that look sculpted rather than eroded.

Curious Landmarks

Little A’Le’Inn

Rachel, Nevada

A tiny desert inn turns Area 51 lore into alien burgers, souvenirs, and UFO photo ops.

Curious Landmarks

Monument to a Prostitute

Lusk, Wyoming

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