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Center of the Universe

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Stand on one small circle above Tulsa's railroad tracks and your own voice returns with a peculiar metallic echo that sounds dramatically different from only a…

Curious Landmarks

Center of the Universe

Wallace, Idaho

A decorated manhole cover marks the exact center of everything, according to the town of Wallace.

Giant Objects

Albert the Bull

Audubon, Iowa

A 45-ton concrete Hereford with a 15-foot horn span watches over an Iowa park and tells visitors his story.

Roadside Attractions

Paul Bunyan and Babe

Bemidji, Minnesota

Bemidji's giant lumberjack and blue ox have posed beside the lake since the 1930s.

Roadside Attractions

Prehistoric Gardens

Port Orford, Oregon

Twenty-three enormous dinosaur and prehistoric reptile sculptures lurk among giant ferns, moss, and old-growth coastal forest along Highway 101.

Roadside Attractions

Mystical Horizons

Bottineau, North Dakota

Pink granite walls, sighting tubes, and a working sundial turn a remote Turtle Mountain overlook into a modern astronomical calendar.

Roadside Attractions

Singing Oak

New Orleans, Louisiana

A sprawling live oak in City Park carries tuned wind chimes across its branches, including one roughly fourteen feet long, turning ordinary wind into a five-note-scale…

Giant Objects

Dog Bark Park

Cottonwood, Idaho

A two-story beagle towers beside Highway 95, with a smaller wooden dog keeping watch nearby.

Natural Oddities

Soda Dam

Jemez Springs, New Mexico

Hot springs built a strange, mineral-crusted dam across a mountain river.

Roadside Attractions

The Codger Pole

Colfax, Washington

A 65-foot chainsaw-carved pole depicts fifty-one elderly football players who returned to the field in 1988 to replay a rivalry game they had first played fifty…

Natural Oddities

Ice Cave and Bandera Volcano

Grants

A lava-tube cave holds year-round ice beside an ancient volcanic crater.

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…