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Natural Oddities

Crater of Diamonds State Park

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

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

Giant Objects

POPS Sixty-Six-Foot Soda Bottle

Arcadia, Oklahoma

A four-ton steel soda bottle rises sixty-six feet beside Route 66 and comes alive after dark with four thousand color-changing LEDs.

Roadside Attractions

Petersen Rock Garden

Redmond, Oregon

Castles, bridges, towers, tiny landscapes, a stone replica of the Statue of Liberty, glowing minerals, and roaming peacocks fill a handmade garden begun in 1935.

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

Rotary Jail Museum

Crawfordsville, Indiana

An 1882 jail built around a rotating drum of cells, with the entire prisoner block still able to turn behind a single doorway.

Giant Objects

Lucy the Elephant

Margate City, New Jersey

Climb inside a six-story Victorian elephant built to sell beachfront real estate.

Strange Museums

Museum of Death

New Orleans, Louisiana

Coffins, skulls, morgue photography, mortician tools, body bags, and serial-killer correspondence fill a museum that makes death the entire subject instead of a side exhibit.

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.

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.

Giant Objects

Peachoid

Gaffney, South Carolina

A one-million-gallon working water tower was sculpted and painted into a 135-foot peach, complete with an enormous leaf, stem, and deeply exaggerated cleft.

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.

Curious Landmarks

The Heidelberg Project

Detroit, Michigan

An ordinary Detroit block transformed into a sprawling outdoor art environment built from color, salvaged objects, and neighborhood history.