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Natural Oddities

Red Bluff

Foxworth, Mississippi

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

Strange Museums

Reptile World Serpentarium

St. Cloud, Florida

Home to one of the world's largest collections of venomous snakes, Reptile World Serpentarium has been thrilling and educating visitors in Central Florida since 1972. Famous…

Curious Landmarks

The Milk Can

North Smithfield, Rhode Island

A roadside ice-cream stand was built as a thirty-two-foot milk can, creating a piece of novelty architecture that has outlived the business inside it by decades.

Strange Museums

Wyoming Dinosaur Center

Thermopolis, Wyoming

A small Wyoming town displays a 106-foot Supersaurus and lets visitors work at active dinosaur dig sites.

Historic Oddities

Stumphouse Tunnel

Walhalla, South Carolina

Workers dug this mountain railroad tunnel by hand before the Civil War, abandoned it unfinished, and decades later Clemson researchers discovered that its constant fifty-degree air…

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 Teapot

Chester, West Virginia

A giant wooden barrel was converted into a fourteen-foot teapot with a handle, spout, windows, and enough room inside to sell snacks to passing motorists.

Roadside Attractions

Iowa 80, World’s Largest Truckstop

Walcott, Iowa

This highway stop grew into a 24-hour trucker metropolis with restaurants, showers, a dentist, a barber, and its own museum.

Natural Oddities

Big Spring

Van Buren, Missouri

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

Natural Oddities

Fantastic Caverns

Springfield, Missouri

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

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…

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…