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Roadside Attractions

Singing Oak

New Orleans, Louisiana

A sprawling live oak in City Park carries tuned wind chimes across its branches, including one roughly fourteen feet long, turning ordinary wind into a five-note-scale…

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.

Curious Landmarks

Hot Springs Mountain Tower

Hot Springs, Arkansas

A 216-foot steel tower continues a mountaintop lookout tradition repeatedly ended by fire and demolition.

Curious Landmarks

Memorial Arch of Tilton

Northfield, New Hampshire

A Roman-style hilltop arch marks the tomb its wealthy builder never used.

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.

Roadside Attractions

Mystical Horizons

Bottineau, North Dakota

Pink granite walls, sighting tubes, and a working sundial turn a remote Turtle Mountain overlook into a modern astronomical calendar.

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.

Natural Oddities

Ashfall Fossil Beds

Royal, Nebraska

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

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.

Roadside Attractions

Flatwoods Monster Chairs

Flatwoods, West Virginia

Five ten-foot chairs shaped like the Flatwoods Monster are scattered across Braxton County, inviting visitors to climb directly into one of West Virginia's strangest legends.

Historic Oddities

Grotto of the Redemption

West Bend, Iowa

Built from millions of gemstones, fossils, and minerals gathered from around the world, the Grotto of the Redemption is one of the largest man-made grottos on…

Historic Oddities

Berkeley Pit

Butte, Montana

A vast flooded copper mine has become one of Butte's strangest overlooks.