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Curious Landmarks

Franconia Sculpture Park

Shafer, Minnesota

A sprawling outdoor gallery scatters strange, monumental artwork across rural Minnesota fields.

Roadside Attractions

Mystery Spot

St. Ignace, Michigan

A classic Upper Peninsula attraction where tilted rooms and carefully staged illusions make gravity seem unreliable.

Roadside Attractions

Big Ole

Alexandria, Minnesota

A 28-foot Viking guards Alexandria with a shield making one of Minnesota's boldest historical claims.

Natural Oddities

Dragon’s Teeth

Lahaina, Hawaii

Wind and surf froze a Maui lava flow into rows of pale, jagged rock that resemble a monster’s teeth.

Concrete tower ruins of Monte Ne standing at the edge of Beaver Lake

Abandoned Places

Monte Ne Ruins

Rogers, Arkansas

The remains of a failed Ozark resort emerge from Beaver Lake when the water level falls.

Strange Museums

Wilhelm Reich Museum

Rangeley, Maine

Deep in western Maine, Wilhelm Reich's former laboratory preserves orgone energy accumulators, atmospheric experiments, and the story of a machine he believed could influence the weather.

Strange Museums

International Vinegar Museum

Roslyn, South Dakota

A tiny South Dakota town turned vinegar into a full museum, complete with global bottles, tastings, vinegar art, and an annual Vinegar Queen.

Giant Objects

Dog Bark Park

Cottonwood, Idaho

A two-story beagle towers beside Highway 95, with a smaller wooden dog keeping watch nearby.

Curious Landmarks

America’s Stonehenge

Salem, New Hampshire

Stone chambers in the Salem woods still spark arguments over who built them and when.

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

Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard

Waterbury, Vermont

Behind Ben & Jerry's Vermont factory, discontinued ice cream flavors receive real granite headstones, dates, and pun-filled epitaphs on a hillside graveyard.

Natural Oddities

Providence Canyon

Lumpkin, Georgia

Georgia's colorful Little Grand Canyon is a spectacular landscape created partly by disastrous farming erosion.