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Clam Box of Ipswich

Ipswich, Massachusetts

Since 1935, this Ipswich restaurant has looked like an enormous cardboard takeout box with its top flaps thrown open.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab

Repton, Alabama

A 67-foot fiberglass horseshoe crab has migrated from Baltimore to Kentucky, Ohio, and finally rural Alabama.

Curious Landmarks

Milk Bottle Grocery

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

A tiny triangular brick shop of only about 350 square feet supports a huge metal milk bottle on its roof, creating one of Route 66's strangest…

Natural Oddities

Tree in the Rock

Buford, Wyoming

A limber pine grows directly from a crack in a granite boulder between the lanes of Interstate 80, where travelers have been stopping to stare for…

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…

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…

Historic Oddities

Monument of States

Kissimmee, Florida

Built as a symbol of unity during World War II, the Monument of States in Kissimmee, Florida, is a towering roadside curiosity made from stones and…

Giant Objects

Cabazon Dinosaurs

Cabazon, California

Towering above Interstate 10 in Southern California, the Cabazon Dinosaurs are among America’s most recognizable roadside giants. These enormous concrete creatures transformed a simple highway stop…

Giant Objects

Marion Steam Shovel

Le Roy, New York

A hulking, fenced-off steam shovel survives beside a country road.

Natural Oddities

Tripod Rock

Montville Township, New Jersey

A massive glacial boulder seems to perch on three small stone legs.

Natural Oddities

Beartown State Park

Renick, West Virginia

Massive sandstone blocks are split by narrow crevices, overhangs, slots, and passageways so dense that the rock formations resemble the streets and buildings of a stone…

Historic Oddities

Saugatuck Chain Ferry

Saugatuck, Michigan

A hand-cranked ferry crosses the Kalamazoo River by pulling itself along a chain stretched beneath the water.