Oddity Directory

7/10Curiosity

Natural Oddities

Beartown State Park

Renick, West Virginia

Massive sandstone blocks are split by narrow crevices, overhangs, slots, and passageways so dense that the rock formations resemble the streets and buildings of a stone…

View oddity →

7/10Curiosity

Historic Oddities

Wooldridge Monuments

Mayfield, Kentucky

Eighteen stone figures gather around one man's grave, including relatives, hunting dogs, a horse, a deer, a fox, and Wooldridge himself at the center of it…

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Natural Oddities

Happy Jack Chalk Mine

Scotia, Nebraska

A guided walk leads into honeycombed chalk tunnels beneath a Nebraska hill.

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Curious Landmarks

Smith Mansion

Wapiti, Wyoming

A five-story log tower of balconies, stairs, platforms, and rooms grew by hand on a Wyoming hillside until its builder died after falling from the structure.

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Curious Landmarks

Bromo Seltzer Tower

Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore's 1911 clock tower replaces the twelve numbers with the letters BROMO-SELTZER and once carried a 51-foot glowing medicine bottle above the skyline.

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Strange Museums

Abita Mystery House

Abita Springs, Louisiana

Tucked away in the Louisiana town of Abita Springs, the Abita Mystery House is a wonderfully strange collection of homemade inventions, folk art, found objects, and…

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Curious Landmarks

The Tridge

Midland, Michigan

Three wooden bridge spans meet at one central platform above the meeting of two Michigan rivers.

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Natural Oddities

Big Spring

Van Buren, Missouri

An immense blue-green spring pours from an Ozark hillside into the Current River.

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Historic Oddities

Pompeys Pillar

Pompeys Pillar, Montana

William Clark's 1806 signature remains carved into a sandstone pillar.

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Strange Museums

Kentucky Meat Shower

Owingsville, Kentucky

In 1876, pieces of meat fell across a Bath County farm under a clear sky, and a surviving sample has kept one of Kentucky's strangest mysteries…

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Giant Objects

Clyde II

Winchendon, Massachusetts

A fifteen-foot wooden rocking horse stands beneath a pavilion in Winchendon, carrying on the Massachusetts town's century-old identity as Toy Town.

View oddity →

6/10Curiosity

Curious Landmarks

Guru Road

Gerlach, Nevada

A mile of desert stones carries jokes, advice, shrines, and found-object folk art.

View oddity →