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Curious Landmarks

Thorncrown Chapel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

A woodland chapel made from 425 windows seems to disappear into the surrounding Ozark forest.

Strange Museums

Umbrella Cover Museum

Peaks Island, Maine

A tiny island museum turned the disposable sleeve from an umbrella into a collection, a world record, a guided show, and an excuse to play accordion.

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.

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…

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

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…

Curious Landmarks

Soda Springs Geyser

Soda Springs, Idaho

An accidental geyser erupts on the hour because the city keeps the cold-water blast on a timer.

Historic Oddities

Forestiere Underground Gardens

Fresno, California

Beneath the dry landscape of Fresno, California, lies a hidden world carved entirely by hand. The Forestiere Underground Gardens are a remarkable network of tunnels, courtyards,…

Natural Oddities

Blue Hole of Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa, New Mexico

A vivid blue, spring-fed sinkhole opens beside old Route 66.

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.

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…

Roadside Attractions

Bigfoot Trap

Jacksonville, Oregon

Deep in the forest stands a heavy wooden trap built in 1974 to capture Bigfoot alive. Six years of baiting produced bears, but no Sasquatch.