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Historic Oddities

Seattle Underground

Seattle, Washington

Beneath modern Pioneer Square lies a buried layer of old Seattle, where former sidewalks, storefronts, and first floors survive below the streets used today.

Curious Landmarks

Markel Building

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond's strangest office building was inspired by a baked potato wrapped in foil and covered with enormous sheets of aluminum deliberately hammered into wrinkles.

Curious Landmarks

Mount Trashmore Park

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach turned a 640,000-ton pile of garbage into a sixty-foot mountain and public park, then gave the former landfill the most honest name possible.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Boot

Red Wing, Minnesota

A size 638 1/2 leather boot turns practical Minnesota footwear into a twenty-foot indoor giant.

Natural Oddities

Ringing Rocks Park

Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania

Strike the right boulders in this seven-acre field and solid diabase answers with metallic notes more like bells than ordinary stone.

Historic Oddities

Ha Ha Tonka Castle

Camdenton, Missouri

Stone castle ruins stand above the Lake of the Ozarks, the remains of an ambitious early 20th-century estate.

Roadside Attractions

Seattle Gum Wall

Seattle, Washington

Thousands of pieces of chewed gum have transformed a brick alley beside Pike Place Market into a sticky, multicolored public artwork nobody officially planned.

Curious Landmarks

Monster Mansion

Austell, Georgia

A cheerful monster picnic turns into a boat ride through a swampy underworld packed with animatronic creatures.

Strange Museums

Bayou St. John Mystery Submarine

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

A hand-cranked Civil War-era submarine recovered from New Orleans waters was misidentified for generations, and its original name and builder remain uncertain.

Roadside Attractions

Lemmon Petrified Wood Park & Museum

Lemmon, South Dakota

Thousands of tons of petrified wood, fossilized grass, and round boulders were stacked into towers, pyramids, arches, and buildings across a downtown city block.

Giant Objects

Earth Kugel

Richmond, Virginia

A nearly nine-foot granite Earth weighs about 29 tons, yet a thin layer of pressurized water lets visitors rotate the entire planet with one hand.

Strange Museums

RV/MH Hall of Fame

Elkhart, Indiana

A simulated indoor campground packed with antique housecars, tiny trailers, early motorhomes, and a century of rolling vacation history.