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Curious Landmarks

Guru Road

Gerlach, Nevada

A mile of desert stones carries jokes, advice, shrines, and found-object folk art.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Egg

Winlock, Washington

Winlock celebrates its poultry history with a twelve-foot egg weighing about 1,200 pounds, continuing a giant-egg tradition that began more than a century ago.

Curious Landmarks

Fort Delaware

Delaware City, Delaware

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

Curious Landmarks

Thorncrown Chapel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

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

Natural Oddities

Happy Jack Chalk Mine

Scotia, Nebraska

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

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.

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.

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…

Natural Oddities

Mammoth Spring

Mammoth Spring, Arkansas

Nine million gallons of water surge from an underground system every hour to form the Spring River.

Historic Oddities

Air Mobility Command Museum

Dover, Delaware

Enormous cargo planes and flying tankers surround a historic hangar at Dover Air Force Base.

Historic Oddities

World’s Wonder View Tower

Genoa, Colorado

Perched high above the plains of eastern Colorado, the World's Wonder View Tower is a historic roadside attraction that once invited travelers to climb hundreds of…

Curious Landmarks

American Gothic House

Eldon, Iowa

The tiny white farmhouse behind one of America's most famous paintings now supplies visitors with pitchforks and costumes.