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Ninigret Park Trolls

Charlestown, Rhode Island

Two enormous trolls made from reclaimed wood sit among ponds, boulders, and trees inside Ninigret Park, turning a public recreation area into a giant scavenger hunt.

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Secret Caverns

Howes Cave, New York

A quirky show cave with painted signs and a waterfall roughly 100 feet tall underground.

Curious Landmarks

Very Large Array

Socorro, New Mexico

Twenty-seven giant radio dishes move across a remote desert plain.

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South of the Border

Hamer, South Carolina

A sprawling roadside complex announces itself with enormous signs, fiberglass creatures, neon, a reptile collection, and a sombrero-shaped observation tower more than two hundred feet tall.

Roadside Attractions

Hodag Statue

Rhinelander, Wisconsin

A huge horned monster with tusks, claws, spikes, and red eyes guards Rhinelander, preserving a local creature that began as an elaborate nineteenth-century hoax.

Roadside Attractions

Vermontasaurus

Post Mills, Vermont

A gigantic dinosaur assembled from scrap lumber sprawls beside a rural Vermont airfield, looking like a prehistoric skeleton rebuilt by someone with a pile of old…

Roadside Attractions

Petersen Rock Garden

Redmond, Oregon

Castles, bridges, towers, tiny landscapes, a stone replica of the Statue of Liberty, glowing minerals, and roaming peacocks fill a handmade garden begun in 1935.

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Mothman Statue

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

A twelve-foot stainless steel winged creature with glowing red eyes stands in downtown Point Pleasant, turning one of America's strangest local legends into a permanent roadside…

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Enchanted Highway

Gladstone, North Dakota

A lonely county road crosses the North Dakota prairie past enormous geese, grasshoppers, pheasants, deer, fish, and a towering family built from scrap metal.