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Natural Oddities

Bubble Rock

Mount Desert, Maine

A glacier carried an enormous chunk of granite roughly 30 miles and dropped it near the edge of South Bubble, where it still looks one hard…

Giant Objects

Hood Milk Bottle

Boston, Massachusetts

A 40-foot milk bottle that began life as a roadside ice cream stand in 1933 now towers beside Boston Children's Museum.

Roadside Attractions

Dinosaur Land

White Post, Virginia

More than fifty old-school dinosaurs, prehistoric creatures, and oversized monsters lurk beside a Virginia highway in a gloriously vintage roadside park.

Curious Landmarks

International Car Forest of the Last Church

Goldfield, Nevada

A desert “forest” of planted and stacked cars serves as Goldfield’s ever-changing art gallery.

Natural Oddities

Darlingtonia State Natural Site

Florence, Oregon

An entire Oregon state natural site protects fields of cobra-shaped carnivorous plants that lure insects into hollow tubes and make escape deliberately difficult.

Roadside Attractions

The Thing?

Dragoon, Arizona

The Thing? sits along Interstate 10 in the Arizona desert. It's a classic roadside attraction built around curiosity, mystery, and the promise of the unknown. For…

Historic Oddities

Delta-09 Missile Silo

Wall, South Dakota

A deactivated Minuteman II training missile still sits beneath the open prairie at a former launch site where almost everything dangerous was designed to remain invisible.

Haunted Locations

Sloss Furnaces

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham preserved an enormous maze of blast furnaces, pipes, towers, and industrial machinery as a public museum.

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

Albert the Bull

Audubon, Iowa

A 45-ton concrete Hereford with a 15-foot horn span watches over an Iowa park and tells visitors his story.

Abandoned Places

Cape Henlopen Fire Control Towers

Lewes, Delaware

Concrete towers built to watch for enemy ships still loom over Delaware's beaches like abandoned sentinels.

Giant Objects

Giant Frying Pan and Spitting Clam

Long Beach, Washington

A 14-foot frying pan and five-foot razor clam share a Long Beach corner, and the clam periodically spits water at anyone standing nearby.