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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.

Curious Landmarks

Republic of Molossia

Dayton, Nevada

A self-proclaimed micronation in a Dayton neighborhood stamps passports and bans contraband onions.

Curious Landmarks

Green Bank Telescope

Green Bank, West Virginia

A nearly 17-million-pound radio telescope taller than a 40-story building turns beneath a sky protected from radio interference by one of America's strangest technological zones.

Historic Oddities

Coney Island Hot Dog Stand

Bailey, Colorado

Shaped like a giant hot dog complete with bun and toppings, the Coney Island Hot Dog Stand is one of Colorado's most beloved roadside attractions. This…

Historic Oddities

Strataca

Hutchinson, Kansas

A 90-second elevator ride drops visitors 650 feet into an active salt mine with miles of tunnels and underground exhibits.

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.

Natural Oddities

Shoshone Ice Caves

Shoshone, Idaho

A lava tube stores winter cold so effectively that ice survives beneath the desert through summer.

Roadside Attractions

Seattle Gum Wall

Seattle, Washington

Thousands of pieces of chewed gum have transformed a brick alley beside Pike Place Market into a sticky, multicolored public artwork nobody officially planned.

Roadside Attractions

Green Animals Topiary Garden

Portsmouth, Rhode Island

More than eighty topiary animals and figures fill a seven-acre estate where shrubs have been trained into bears, birds, a giraffe, a camel, a unicorn, and…