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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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WonderWorks Pigeon Forge

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

A massive classical-style building appears to have landed upside down beside the Parkway, complete with inverted columns, windows, trees, and pavement hanging overhead.

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Foamhenge

Centreville, Virginia

Virginia has a life-size Stonehenge replica made from foam, complete with carefully shaped fake stones that survived relocation across the state.

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The Archway

Kearney, Nebraska

A museum about westward travel hangs directly above Interstate 80.

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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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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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Bannerman Castle

Beacon, New York

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

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Milk Bottle Grocery

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

A tiny triangular brick shop of only about 350 square feet supports a huge metal milk bottle on its roof, creating one of Route 66's strangest…

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Shell Service Station

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

A bright yellow concrete seashell survives from a chain of 1930s gas stations that turned the Shell logo into the entire building.

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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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International Car Forest of the Last Church

Goldfield, Nevada

A desert “forest” of planted and stacked cars serves as Goldfield’s ever-changing art gallery.

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The Big Chicken

Marietta, Georgia

A 56-foot steel chicken with rolling eyes and a moving beak towers over a working KFC.