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Roadside Attractions

Flatwoods Monster Chairs

Flatwoods, West Virginia

Five ten-foot chairs shaped like the Flatwoods Monster are scattered across Braxton County, inviting visitors to climb directly into one of West Virginia's strangest legends.

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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…

Roadside Attractions

Prada Marfa

Valentine, Texas

A pristine luxury boutique sits alone beside a desert highway, permanently locked, stocked with Prada merchandise, and hundreds of miles from where anyone would expect to…

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Horseshoe Crab

Repton, Alabama

A 67-foot fiberglass horseshoe crab has migrated from Baltimore to Kentucky, Ohio, and finally rural Alabama.

Curious Landmarks

The Big Chicken

Marietta, Georgia

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

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Bigfoot Trap

Jacksonville, Oregon

Deep in the forest stands a heavy wooden trap built in 1974 to capture Bigfoot alive. Six years of baiting produced bears, but no Sasquatch.

Roadside Attractions

Pelican Pete

Pelican Rapids, Minnesota

A 15.5-foot concrete pelican has watched the Pelican River since a 1957 town celebration.

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Jumbo at Tufts

Medford, Massachusetts

Tufts University's life-size bronze elephant marks a bizarre mascot history involving the real Jumbo, a preserved hide destroyed by fire, a saved tail, and ashes kept…

Natural Oddities

Blue Hole of Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa, New Mexico

A vivid blue, spring-fed sinkhole opens beside old Route 66.

Roadside Attractions

Land of Oz

Beech Mountain, North Carolina

A mountaintop theme park that closed in 1980 still returns for special events, preserving its Yellow Brick Road, storybook scenery, and fragments of a strange 1970s…

Curious Landmarks

Soda Springs Geyser

Soda Springs, Idaho

An accidental geyser erupts on the hour because the city keeps the cold-water blast on a timer.

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Iowa 80, World’s Largest Truckstop

Walcott, Iowa

This highway stop grew into a 24-hour trucker metropolis with restaurants, showers, a dentist, a barber, and its own museum.