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Giant Objects

Big Blue Bug

Providence, Rhode Island

A four-thousand-pound termite stretches fifty-eight feet across the roof of a pest-control company, greeting Interstate 95 traffic with six enormous legs and a permanently cheerful blue…

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…

Historic Oddities

Kiptopeke Concrete Fleet

Cape Charles, Virginia

Nine World War II ships made from concrete sit permanently sunk in Chesapeake Bay, lined up offshore to form one of the strangest breakwaters in America.

Historic Oddities

Old Idaho Penitentiary

Boise, Idaho

Cell blocks, solitary confinement, gallows, and handmade prison weapons fill a sandstone territorial prison.

Natural Oddities

Boar’s Tusk

Rock Springs, Wyoming

A 400-foot volcanic core shaped like a broken fang rises alone from the nearly flat Red Desert.

Natural Oddities

Mushroom Rock State Park

Marquette, Kansas

Wind and water balanced broad sandstone caps on narrow stems, creating a five-acre garden of giant stone mushrooms.

Curious Landmarks

Rock Eagle Effigy Mound

Eatonton, Georgia

Thousands of quartz rocks form a mysterious prehistoric bird best seen from a stone observation tower.

Curious Landmarks

Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel

Bella Vista, Arkansas

A delicate steel-and-glass chapel rises from the woods like an elaborate Gothic cage.

Historic Oddities

Grotto of the Redemption

West Bend, Iowa

Built from millions of gemstones, fossils, and minerals gathered from around the world, the Grotto of the Redemption is one of the largest man-made grottos on…

Historic Oddities

Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine

East Granby, Connecticut

Connecticut turned a failed copper mine into a brutal underground prison where inmates were lowered into darkness.

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.

Strange Museums

Devil’s Rope Museum

McLean, Texas

A former factory in McLean contains an entire museum devoted to barbed wire, with fencing tools, wire variations, ranching history, and enough sharp metal to justify…