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Curious Landmarks

Will Rogers Archway

Vinita, Oklahoma

A full service plaza bridges both directions of Interstate 44, letting travelers eat and shop while highway traffic rushes directly underneath the building.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Apple

Winchester, Virginia

A giant red apple that once rolled through Winchester as a parade float now sits permanently on a downtown lawn as a monument to the region's…

Vulcan cast-iron statue overlooking Birmingham, Alabama

Giant Objects

Vulcan Statue

Birmingham, Alabama

The world’s largest cast-iron statue watches over Birmingham from a pedestal atop Red Mountain.

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

Metaphor: The Tree of Utah

Wendover, Utah

An 87-foot concrete tree covered in huge colored spheres rises alone from the Bonneville Salt Flats like vegetation imported from another planet.

Curious Landmarks

War of the Worlds Landing Site Monument

West Windsor Township, New Jersey

A bronze monument marks the site of a Martian invasion that existed only on radio.

Roadside Attractions

Lemmon Petrified Wood Park & Museum

Lemmon, South Dakota

Thousands of tons of petrified wood, fossilized grass, and round boulders were stacked into towers, pyramids, arches, and buildings across a downtown city block.

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.