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Roadside Attractions

Pelican Pete

Pelican Rapids, Minnesota

A 15.5-foot concrete pelican has watched the Pelican River since a 1957 town celebration.

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.

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.

Haunted Locations

Bird Cage Theatre

Tombstone, Arizona

Once one of the wildest entertainment venues in Arizona’s silver mining boomtown, the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone preserves a remarkable chapter of the Old West.…

Historic Oddities

Dighton Rock

Berkley, Massachusetts

A 40-ton boulder covered in carved symbols was removed from the Taunton River and placed inside its own museum after centuries of argument over who made…

Historic Oddities

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center

Powell, Wyoming

A remote Wyoming plain once held a guarded city where thousands of Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.

Abandoned Places

SS Atlantus Concrete Shipwreck

Lower Township, New Jersey

The broken hull of a World War I concrete ship still juts from the Delaware Bay.

Historic Oddities

John J. Makinen Bottle House

Kaleva, Michigan

Built from more than 65,000 glass bottles, the John J. Makinen Bottle House is one of Michigan's most unusual historic structures. Constructed in Kaleva during the…

Curious Landmarks

Skinny House

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's famously skinny four-story house is barely ten feet wide, but the popular tale that it was built out of brotherly spite does not match the…

Giant Objects

Snelgrove Ice Cream Cone

Salt Lake City, Utah

A huge double-scoop ice cream cone survives in Salt Lake City after the famous parlor it advertised disappeared around it.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Office Chair

Anniston, Alabama

This 33-foot office chair turned an ordinary piece of furniture into a ten-ton Alabama roadside landmark.

Giant Objects

Route 66 Rocker

Fanning, Missouri

A 42-foot steel rocking chair towers over a Route 66 outpost near Cuba, Missouri.