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Big Easel

Goodland, Kansas

An 80-foot easel holds a 24-by-32-foot Van Gogh reproduction above a western Kansas park devoted to sunflowers.

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Bamahenge

Elberta, Alabama

Hidden in an Alabama pine forest, this full-size Stonehenge replica looks ancient but is built from fiberglass.

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Little A’Le’Inn

Rachel, Nevada

A tiny desert inn turns Area 51 lore into alien burgers, souvenirs, and UFO photo ops.

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Fenelon Place Elevator

Dubuque, Iowa

Two tiny counterbalanced cars climb a 296-foot Iowa bluff on a railway built to make one banker's lunch break easier.

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Kūkaniloko Birthstones

Wahiawa, Hawaii

A sacred group of stones marks the place where generations of Oʻahu’s highest-ranking chiefs were born.

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The Pyramids

Indianapolis, Indiana

Three enormous glass-and-concrete pyramids rise beside an Indianapolis interstate, remnants of a nine-building corporate dream.

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Clam Box of Ipswich

Ipswich, Massachusetts

Since 1935, this Ipswich restaurant has looked like an enormous cardboard takeout box with its top flaps thrown open.

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The Old Mill

North Little Rock, Arkansas

This picturesque old gristmill is actually a 1930s recreation filled with concrete disguised as wood and stone.

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Franconia Sculpture Park

Shafer, Minnesota

A sprawling outdoor gallery scatters strange, monumental artwork across rural Minnesota fields.

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Hot Springs Mountain Tower

Hot Springs, Arkansas

A 216-foot steel tower continues a mountaintop lookout tradition repeatedly ended by fire and demolition.

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Bannerman Castle

Beacon, New York

A ruined castle on a Hudson River island was built to store military surplus.

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Nutty Narrows Bridge

Longview, Washington

A sixty-foot suspension bridge made for squirrels crosses a Longview street using an old fire hose and pieces of television antenna.