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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.

Roadside Attractions

Dinosaur Park

Rapid City, South Dakota

Seven huge vintage concrete dinosaurs have been frozen on a Rapid City ridge since the 1930s, including an eighty-foot-long green Apatosaurus.

Historic Oddities

Dinosaur Footprints

Holyoke, Massachusetts

Hundreds of real dinosaur tracks sit beside Route 5 in Holyoke, including footprints from the site where dinosaur tracks were first scientifically described.

Curious Landmarks

Louisville Mega Cavern

Louisville, Kentucky

Beneath Louisville lies a 100-acre former limestone mine classified as a building, with internal roads, commercial space, tours, and millions of square feet underground.

Natural Oddities

Old Sow Whirlpool

Eastport, Maine

Powerful tides off Eastport can twist into a whirlpool more than 250 feet across, complete with smaller surrounding vortices known appropriately as piglets.

Historic Oddities

Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay

Nanjemoy, Maryland

The Potomac River holds the skeletons of more than 100 abandoned ships, many built for World War I and later burned, salvaged, scuttled, and slowly transformed…

Natural Oddities

Happy Jack Chalk Mine

Scotia, Nebraska

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

Roadside Attractions

Rollstone Boulder

Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Fitchburg loved its 110-ton glacial boulder so much that the city broke it into pieces, hauled it downtown, and reassembled the enormous rock beside the Upper…

Curious Landmarks

Snake Alley

Burlington, Iowa

Seven tight brick curves twist up a steep Iowa bluff on a street designed to give horses a fighting chance.

Historic Oddities

Garden of Eden

Lucas, Kansas

In the tiny Kansas town of Lucas, a retired Civil War veteran spent nearly three decades transforming his home and yard into a remarkable landscape of…

Strange Museums

Titanic Museum Attraction

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

A huge half-scale Titanic appears to plow through a roadside iceberg in Pigeon Forge, with hundreds of artifacts and full-size recreated spaces waiting inside.

Roadside Attractions

Mount Airy Granite Quarry

Mount Airy, North Carolina

An enormous exposure of pale Mount Airy granite has been cut for dimension stone since the nineteenth century, leaving a brilliant white industrial landscape beside the…