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Historic Oddities

Indiana Medical History Museum

Indianapolis, Indiana

A preserved 1896 pathology laboratory where autopsy rooms, anatomical specimens, and early psychiatric research remain strikingly intact.

Roadside Attractions

Tinkertown Museum

Sandia Park, New Mexico

A handmade maze of miniature worlds and glass-bottle walls hides in the Sandia Mountains.

Curious Landmarks

Pasaquan

Buena Vista, Georgia

A seven-acre visionary art compound glows with concrete totems, painted walls, and a private cosmic religion.

Curious Landmarks

Paper House

Rockport, Massachusetts

A mechanical engineer turned layers of old newspaper into walls, chairs, desks, and even a grandfather clock inside this astonishing Cape Ann house.

Giant Objects

Big Brutus

West Mineral, Kansas

An 11-million-pound electric shovel towers over the Kansas coalfields where it was abandoned as too large to move.

Curious Landmarks

Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky

Raleigh, North Carolina

A turf-covered stone chamber in an art museum park works as a walk-in camera obscura, projecting an upside-down image of the outside world onto its interior.

Curious Landmarks

Hole N” The Rock

Moab, Utah

A 5,000-square-foot home with fourteen rooms, a fireplace, shelves, and furniture was blasted and carved directly into a giant sandstone cliff south of Moab.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock

Sugarcreek, Ohio

A 23-foot-tall cuckoo clock comes alive every half hour with a bird, dancing figures, and a mechanical polka band.

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…

Natural Oddities

The Mammoth Site

Hot Springs, South Dakota

An entire building surrounds an ancient sinkhole packed with mammoth bones, leaving visitors face to face with an active Ice Age excavation.

Curious Landmarks

Longaberger Basket Building

Newark, Ohio

A seven-story office building was constructed as a colossal replica of a Longaberger market basket, complete with enormous handles arching over the roof.

Roadside Attractions

Mothman Statue

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

A twelve-foot stainless steel winged creature with glowing red eyes stands in downtown Point Pleasant, turning one of America's strangest local legends into a permanent roadside…