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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.

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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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Hammond Castle

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. built a medieval-inspired stone castle on the Gloucester coast and filled it with his home, laboratory, collections, and technological experiments.

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America’s Stonehenge

Salem, New Hampshire

Stone chambers in the Salem woods still spark arguments over who built them and when.

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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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The Milk Can

North Smithfield, Rhode Island

A roadside ice-cream stand was built as a thirty-two-foot milk can, creating a piece of novelty architecture that has outlived the business inside it by decades.

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Thorncrown Chapel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

A woodland chapel made from 425 windows seems to disappear into the surrounding Ozark forest.

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Soda Springs Geyser

Soda Springs, Idaho

An accidental geyser erupts on the hour because the city keeps the cold-water blast on a timer.

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Gold Dome

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

A golden geodesic dome made from 625 panels turned a 1958 bank into a futuristic Route 66 landmark that still looks ready for launch.

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Bromo Seltzer Tower

Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore's 1911 clock tower replaces the twelve numbers with the letters BROMO-SELTZER and once carried a 51-foot glowing medicine bottle above the skyline.

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Skinny House

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's famously skinny four-story house is barely ten feet wide, but the popular tale that it was built out of brotherly spite does not match the…

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Louisville Mega Cavern

Louisville, Kentucky

Beneath Louisville lies a 100-acre former limestone mine classified as a building, with internal roads, commercial space, tours, and millions of square feet underground.