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Natural Oddities

Big Bone Lick

Union, Kentucky

A Kentucky salt lick became an Ice Age bone trap where mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ancient bison, and other megafauna left remains in the mud.

Natural Oddities

Cathedral Caverns

Woodville, Alabama

A vast cave entrance leads to a stone forest, underground river, and one of the world’s largest stalagmites.

Curious Landmarks

WonderWorks Pigeon Forge

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

A massive classical-style building appears to have landed upside down beside the Parkway, complete with inverted columns, windows, trees, and pavement hanging overhead.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Hockey Stick

Eveleth, Minnesota

A 107-foot hockey stick and 700-pound puck salute Minnesota's favorite frozen sport.

Roadside Attractions

Big Ole

Alexandria, Minnesota

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

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.

Natural Oddities

Ashfall Fossil Beds

Royal, Nebraska

Ancient rhinos and horses still lie where volcanic ash buried a prehistoric waterhole.

Giant Objects

Big Muskie Bucket

McConnelsville, Ohio

The enormous bucket from the largest dragline ever built survives as a roadside monument large enough for visitors to walk inside.

Historic Oddities

Windsor Ruins

Port Gibson, Mississippi

A forest of towering columns marks the mansion that vanished in an 1890 fire.

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.

Roadside Attractions

Mr. Trash Wheel

Baltimore, Maryland

A solar and water-powered machine with enormous googly eyes waits at the mouth of Jones Falls and slowly eats Baltimore's floating garbage into a dumpster.

Natural Oddities

Tripod Rock

Montville Township, New Jersey

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