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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…

Roadside Attractions

Chained Rock

Pineville, Kentucky

A colossal rock looms over Pineville with a giant iron chain strapped across it, installed in 1933 to turn a local tall tale into a real…

Natural Oddities

Natural Bridge Park

Natural Bridge, Alabama

Alabama’s enormous sandstone bridge shares its forest with a 15-foot rock formation resembling a human profile.

Natural Oddities

Earthquake Lake

Cameron, Montana

A 1959 landslide dammed the Madison River and made a new lake overnight.

Natural Oddities

Killpecker Sand Dunes

Rock Springs, Wyoming

A vast Wyoming dune field can hum and boom when millions of polished sand grains slide together.

Natural Oddities

Red Bluff

Foxworth, Mississippi

Mississippi’s Little Grand Canyon reveals vivid cliffs carved by constant erosion.

Natural Oddities

Fantastic Caverns

Springfield, Missouri

Visitors ride through a cave on a Jeep-drawn tram beneath towering columns and limestone formations.

Curious Landmarks

Fort Delaware

Delaware City, Delaware

A massive polygonal fortress occupies an isolated island in the middle of the Delaware River.

Strange Museums

International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga gave tow trucks their own international museum, where antique wreckers, recovery equipment, toys, tools, and towing history get the full museum treatment.

Giant Objects

World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet

Burlington, Vermont

Thirty-eight filing cabinet drawers rise into the Burlington sky as a rusting monument to decades of paperwork generated by a road project that took forever to…

Curious Landmarks

Garbage Goat

Spokane, Washington

Press a button beside this steel goat and an internal vacuum slurps lightweight trash directly through its mouth.

Roadside Attractions

Dole Pineapple Garden Maze

Wahiawa, Hawaii

Thousands of tropical plants form a giant pineapple-shaped maze with miles of twisting paths.