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Historic Oddities

Ave Maria Grotto

Cullman, Alabama

A Benedictine monk spent decades building 125 miniature landmarks from stone, shells, broken tile, and discarded objects.

Curious Landmarks

Luna Parc

Sandyston, New Jersey

A private New Jersey home transformed into a riot of mosaics and folk art.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube

Knoxville, Tennessee

A ten-foot-tall, 1,200-pound Rubik's Cube created for the 1982 World's Fair now sits inside the Knoxville Convention Center like a puzzle for giants.

Roadside Attractions

Vermontasaurus

Post Mills, Vermont

A gigantic dinosaur assembled from scrap lumber sprawls beside a rural Vermont airfield, looking like a prehistoric skeleton rebuilt by someone with a pile of old…

Giant Objects

Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur

Midland, South Dakota

Beside Interstate 90, a towering human skeleton casually walks a skeletal Tyrannosaurus rex on a leash as if this is a perfectly normal South Dakota errand.

Roadside Attractions

Tinkertown Museum

Sandia Park, New Mexico

A handmade maze of miniature worlds and glass-bottle walls hides in the Sandia Mountains.

Curious Landmarks

Very Large Array

Socorro, New Mexico

Twenty-seven giant radio dishes move across a remote desert plain.

Strange Museums

World’s Oldest Ham

Smithfield, Virginia

A ham cured in 1902 became a local celebrity, acquired a brass collar, traveled to exhibitions, and now spends retirement inside a museum with its own…

Curious Landmarks

Dick and Jane’s Spot

Ellensburg, Washington

A private Ellensburg home has spent decades growing a yard full of reflectors, bottle caps, bicycle wheels, carved heads, mosaics, whirligigs, and outsider art.

Giant Objects

Tommy Turtle

Bottineau, North Dakota

Bottineau combined two local symbols into one spectacularly ridiculous landmark: an enormous turtle mounted on an equally enormous snowmobile.

Strange Museums

National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Tens of thousands of nodding heads fill a Milwaukee museum devoted entirely to bobbleheads, from sports stars and celebrities to mascots and deeply obscure characters.

Giant Objects

Dinah the Pink Dinosaur

Vernal, Utah

A forty-foot pink dinosaur wearing a giant grin has greeted travelers entering Vernal since 1958 and somehow became historic enough for the National Register.