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Natural Oddities

Dinosaur State Park

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

A geodesic dome protects hundreds of Jurassic footprints discovered by accident during construction of a state building.

Natural Oddities

Toadstool Geologic Park

Crawford, Nebraska

Wind and erosion have made a Nebraska badlands landscape look like a field of stone mushrooms.

Strange Museums

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Silver Spring, Maryland

A federal medical museum preserves the bullet removed from Abraham Lincoln's brain, the shattered bones of a general's amputated leg, anatomical specimens, antique instruments, and artifacts…

Roadside Attractions

Mystical Horizons

Bottineau, North Dakota

Pink granite walls, sighting tubes, and a working sundial turn a remote Turtle Mountain overlook into a modern astronomical calendar.

Curious Landmarks

Hot Springs Mountain Tower

Hot Springs, Arkansas

A 216-foot steel tower continues a mountaintop lookout tradition repeatedly ended by fire and demolition.

Giant Objects

The Big Chair

Thomasville, North Carolina

A thirty-foot concrete and steel chair towers over downtown Thomasville, replacing an earlier wooden giant that had advertised the city's furniture industry since the 1920s.

Roadside Attractions

Prada Marfa

Valentine, Texas

A pristine luxury boutique sits alone beside a desert highway, permanently locked, stocked with Prada merchandise, and hundreds of miles from where anyone would expect to…

Roadside Attractions

Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park

Chelsea, Oklahoma

A retired craftsman spent decades covering a rural property with towering concrete folk art, including a ninety-foot centerpiece standing on the back of a giant turtle.

Curious Landmarks

Shell Service Station

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

A bright yellow concrete seashell survives from a chain of 1930s gas stations that turned the Shell logo into the entire building.

Roadside Attractions

Enchanted Forest Relics

Ellicott City, Maryland

Giant shoes, crooked houses, storybook castles, nursery-rhyme figures, and other rescued pieces of a vanished 1950s theme park have been gathered back together on a working…

Natural Oddities

Hagerman Fossil Beds

Hagerman, Connecticut

One of the world's richest Pliocene fossil deposits preserves horses, camels, otters, and other vanished animals.

Roadside Attractions

Confusion Hill

Piercy, California

Hidden among the redwoods of Northern California, Confusion Hill is a roadside attraction where gravity seems to behave strangely. Famous for its tilted buildings, optical illusions,…