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Natural Oddities

Secret Caverns

Howes Cave, New York

A quirky show cave with painted signs and a waterfall roughly 100 feet tall underground.

Historic Oddities

Havre Beneath the Streets

Havre, Montana

After a devastating fire, Havre's businesses operated beneath the streets.

Curious Landmarks

Mars Desert Research Station

Hanksville, Utah

In the Utah desert, crews live inside a white cylindrical habitat, wear simulated spacesuits, grow plants, drive rovers, and practice living on Mars without leaving Earth.

Giant Objects

Fremont Troll

Seattle, Washington

An 18-foot concrete troll crouches beneath Seattle's Aurora Bridge with one enormous hand wrapped around a real Volkswagen Beetle.

Historic Oddities

Lizzie Borden House

Fall River, Massachusetts

The Fall River house where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in 1892 now operates as a museum and inn centered on one of America's most…

Natural Oddities

Crater of Diamonds State Park

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

Visitors dig through a volcanic field and may keep every diamond they discover.

Strange Museums

Museum of the Weird

Austin, Texas

Mummies, strange creatures, sideshow relics, wax monsters, mysterious specimens, and dime-museum spectacle are packed above a shop on Austin's Sixth Street.

Natural Oddities

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite

Shell, Wyoming

More than 1,000 Jurassic dinosaur tracks are preserved across a tilted slab of Wyoming limestone where scientists once expected an ancient sea instead of walking dinosaurs.

Strange Museums

Kazoo Factory and Museum

Beaufort, South Carolina

A working factory that produces enormous numbers of plastic kazoos also contains a museum of historic examples and lets visitors assemble one of the buzzing instruments…

Curious Landmarks

Luna Parc

Sandyston, New Jersey

A private New Jersey home transformed into a riot of mosaics and folk art.

Strange Museums

National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Tens of thousands of nodding heads fill a Milwaukee museum devoted entirely to bobbleheads, from sports stars and celebrities to mascots and deeply obscure characters.

Roadside Attractions

Randyland

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Murals, mannequins, mirrors, plastic animals, painted furniture, signs, recycled objects, and relentless color cover nearly every available surface of Randy Gilson's home and courtyard.