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Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel

Bella Vista, Arkansas

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

Strange Museums

Wolf Park

Battle Ground, Indiana

A research and education park where guided visits bring guests close to wolves, foxes, and bison in spacious habitats.

Abandoned Places

Benson Park

Hudson, New Hampshire

Walk a public park where an elephant house and gorilla house outlived the zoo.

Curious Landmarks

Brookfield Floating Bridge

Brookfield, Vermont

A real state highway crosses Sunset Lake on a bridge that actually floats, continuing a Brookfield tradition that began because the lake was too deep for…

Historic Oddities

Sputnik IV Impact Site

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

A Soviet spacecraft missed its planned descent, broke apart over Earth, and dropped a hot chunk of metal into the middle of a Wisconsin street in…

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.

Curious Landmarks

Bannerman Castle

Beacon, New York

A ruined castle on a Hudson River island was built to store military surplus.

Curious Landmarks

Fenelon Place Elevator

Dubuque, Iowa

Two tiny counterbalanced cars climb a 296-foot Iowa bluff on a railway built to make one banker's lunch break easier.

Historic Oddities

Salt Museum

Liverpool, New York

An entire museum devoted to the brine and salt works that shaped Syracuse.

Roadside Attractions

Kecksburg Space Acorn

Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania

A giant acorn-shaped object mounted beside a volunteer fire department preserves the physical form of Pennsylvania's most famous reported UFO incident.

Natural Oddities

Providence Canyon

Lumpkin, Georgia

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

Roadside Attractions

Spiral Jetty

Corinne, Utah

A 1,500-foot coil of black basalt curls across the shore of the Great Salt Lake, disappearing beneath the water and returning again as lake levels change.