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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…

Curious Landmarks

UFO McDonald’s

Roswell, New Mexico

Roswell’s most ordinary restaurant comes packaged as a flying saucer.

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.

Curious Landmarks

The Big Chicken

Marietta, Georgia

A 56-foot steel chicken with rolling eyes and a moving beak towers over a working KFC.

Roadside Attractions

Porter Sculpture Park

Montrose, South Dakota

A sixty-foot bull head, skeletal beasts, giant metal creatures, and more than sixty handmade sculptures rise from the prairie at this gloriously strange roadside art park.

Natural Oddities

Soda Dam

Jemez Springs, New Mexico

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

Roadside Attractions

Ben & Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard

Waterbury, Vermont

Behind Ben & Jerry's Vermont factory, discontinued ice cream flavors receive real granite headstones, dates, and pun-filled epitaphs on a hillside graveyard.

Roadside Attractions

Da Yoopers Tourist Trap

Ishpeming, Michigan

A proudly overbuilt Upper Peninsula stop featuring a giant working chainsaw, a massive rifle, and homemade mechanical humor.

Giant Objects

Dog Bark Park

Cottonwood, Idaho

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

Curious Landmarks

Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States

Lebanon, Kansas

A lonely monument, tiny chapel, and picnic shelter mark an approximate center that is not quite at the actual calculated point.

Roadside Attractions

Mystery Spot

Santa Cruz, California

Hidden among the redwoods near Santa Cruz, California, the Mystery Spot is a legendary roadside attraction where visitors experience strange optical illusions that seem to challenge…

Roadside Attractions

Paul Bunyan and Babe

Bemidji, Minnesota

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