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Republic of Molossia

Dayton, Nevada

A self-proclaimed micronation in a Dayton neighborhood stamps passports and bans contraband onions.

Boardwalk crossing the petroglyph-covered lava field at Puʻu Loa in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

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Puʻu Loa Petroglyphs

Volcano, Hawaii

More than 23,000 images and cup-shaped holes cover an immense field of hardened lava beside Kīlauea.

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Hollow Mountain

Hanksville, Utah

Hanksville has a functioning gas-station convenience store blasted directly into solid sandstone, with fuel pumps outside and a cavern behind the cash register.

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Frog Bridge

Willimantic, Connecticut

Four enormous copper frogs with gold-leaf eyes sit on giant thread spools above the Willimantic River.

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Biloxi Lighthouse

Biloxi, Mississippi

A cast-iron lighthouse stands improbably in the median of a busy coastal highway.

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The Coffee Pot

Bedford, Pennsylvania

Built in 1927 to lure motorists off the Lincoln Highway, this eighteen-foot coffee pot once served food from inside its sheet-metal body.

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Vanadu Art House

Hyattsville, Maryland

A former museum conservator covered his house, yard, fence, and drivable cars with machinery, horns, glass, antiques, scrap metal, and objects that look salvaged from a…

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Gillette Castle

East Haddam, Connecticut

A Sherlock Holmes actor designed this stone fantasy house with trick locks, secret surveillance mirrors, and a private miniature railroad.

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Will Rogers Archway

Vinita, Oklahoma

A full service plaza bridges both directions of Interstate 44, letting travelers eat and shop while highway traffic rushes directly underneath the building.

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Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk

Riverside, Iowa

A small Iowa town claims to be the birthplace of a fictional starship captain who will not be born for centuries.

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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.

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Mississippi River Basin Model

Jackson, Mississippi

A 200-acre concrete landscape once simulated floods across nearly half the continental United States.