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Roadside Attractions

Sun Tunnels

Lucin, Utah

Four enormous concrete tubes sit in an empty Utah desert, aligned with the solstices and drilled with constellations that project moving stars of sunlight inside.

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.

Roadside Attractions

Turtle Boy

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester's beloved Turtle Boy fountain pairs a nude bronze youth with an enormous sea turtle in one of New England's most gloriously awkward public sculptures.

Natural Oddities

Craters of the Moon

Arco, Idaho

Black lava seas, spatter cones, and underground tubes turn the Idaho desert into an alien landscape.

Historic Oddities

Zwaanendael Merman

Lewes, Delaware

A shriveled monkey-fish sideshow creature waits inside a Dutch-style Delaware museum.

Roadside Attractions

The Villagers of Taylor

Taylor, Nebraska

More than 120 painted plywood people inhabit this small Sandhills town.

Roadside Attractions

W’eel Turtle

Dunseith, North Dakota

More than two thousand steel wheel rims were welded into an enormous turtle whose open metal shell looks part animal, part industrial machine.

Natural Oddities

Goblin Valley State Park

Green River, Utah

Thousands of squat sandstone figures crowd a Utah valley so densely that the landscape looks less eroded than populated by an army of stone creatures.

Natural Oddities

Dismals Canyon

Phil Campbell, Alabama

Thousands of tiny glowworm-like larvae illuminate the walls of this shadowy Alabama sandstone canyon.

Giant Objects

The Big Duck

Flanders, New York

A 1931 poultry shop shaped like a giant duck, complete with glass eyes and an orange bill.

Historic Oddities

Ames Monument

Buford, Wyoming

A sixty-foot granite pyramid stands almost alone on the Wyoming prairie because the railroad it was built beside eventually moved away.

Natural Oddities

Kaūmana Caves

Hilo, Hawaii

A roadside staircase descends into a dark lava tube left behind by Mauna Loa’s 1881 eruption.