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Historic Oddities

History takes unusual forms here: a steamboat stranded on land, Hope Cemetery’s carved memorials, Havre’s underground streets, and Seattle’s buried city. Browse these sites for the documented story behind each place and information for a respectful visit.

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Curious Landmarks

Memorial Arch of Tilton

Northfield, New Hampshire

A Roman-style hilltop arch marks the tomb its wealthy builder never used.

Historic Oddities

Crook Point Bridge

Providence, Rhode Island

A steel railroad drawbridge has remained raised above the Seekonk River since train service ended in 1976, leaving a giant piece of transportation machinery frozen against…

Historic Oddities

Monument of States

Kissimmee, Florida

Built as a symbol of unity during World War II, the Monument of States in Kissimmee, Florida, is a towering roadside curiosity made from stones and…

Haunted Locations

Sloss Furnaces

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham preserved an enormous maze of blast furnaces, pipes, towers, and industrial machinery as a public museum.

Curious Landmarks

America’s Stonehenge

Salem, New Hampshire

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

Abandoned Places

Dungeness Ruins

St. Marys, Georgia

Wild horses wander around the roofless shell of a Carnegie mansion on a ferry-only barrier island.

Abandoned Places

Benson Park

Hudson, New Hampshire

Walk a public park where an elephant house and gorilla house outlived the zoo.

Concrete tower ruins of Monte Ne standing at the edge of Beaver Lake

Abandoned Places

Monte Ne Ruins

Rogers, Arkansas

The remains of a failed Ozark resort emerge from Beaver Lake when the water level falls.

Curious Landmarks

Rock Eagle Effigy Mound

Eatonton, Georgia

Thousands of quartz rocks form a mysterious prehistoric bird best seen from a stone observation tower.

Historic Oddities

Sputnik IV Impact Site

Manitowoc, Wisconsin

A Soviet spacecraft missed its planned descent, broke apart over Earth, and dropped a hot chunk of metal into the middle of a Wisconsin street in…

Historic Oddities

Wooldridge Monuments

Mayfield, Kentucky

Eighteen stone figures gather around one man's grave, including relatives, hunting dogs, a horse, a deer, a fox, and Wooldridge himself at the center of it…

Historic Oddities

The Hole-in-the-Wall

Kaycee, Wyoming

A narrow gap in Wyoming’s Red Wall concealed a remote outlaw community used by Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch.