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Guru Road

Gerlach, Nevada

A mile of desert stones carries jokes, advice, shrines, and found-object folk art.

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Garbage Goat

Spokane, Washington

Press a button beside this steel goat and an internal vacuum slurps lightweight trash directly through its mouth.

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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.

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Devils Hole

Amargosa Valley, Nevada

A hot desert cave shelters a fish found nowhere else and even registers distant earthquakes.

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SS Atlantus Concrete Shipwreck

Lower Township, New Jersey

The broken hull of a World War I concrete ship still juts from the Delaware Bay.

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Phoenix Shot Tower

Maryland

The Phoenix Shot Tower looks absurdly tall for a brick industrial building because its manufacturing process required one essential ingredient: a very long fall. Workers once…

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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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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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The Tridge

Midland, Michigan

Three wooden bridge spans meet at one central platform above the meeting of two Michigan rivers.

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Smith Mansion

Wapiti, Wyoming

A five-story log tower of balconies, stairs, platforms, and rooms grew by hand on a Wyoming hillside until its builder died after falling from the structure.

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Lightship Overfalls

Lewes, Delaware

A bright red floating lighthouse survives as one of America's last preserved lightships.

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American Gothic House

Eldon, Iowa

The tiny white farmhouse behind one of America's most famous paintings now supplies visitors with pitchforks and costumes.