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Historic Bath County Courthouse in Owingsville, Kentucky, home of the Bath County History Museum

Strange Museums

Kentucky Meat Shower

Owingsville, Kentucky

In 1876, pieces of meat fell across a Bath County farm under a clear sky, and a surviving sample has kept one of Kentucky's strangest mysteries…

Curious Landmarks

Lightship Overfalls

Lewes, Delaware

A bright red floating lighthouse survives as one of America's last preserved lightships.

Strange Museums

Titanic Museum Attraction

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

A huge half-scale Titanic appears to plow through a roadside iceberg in Pigeon Forge, with hundreds of artifacts and full-size recreated spaces waiting inside.

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Jake the Alligator Man

Long Beach, Washington

A shriveled half-man, half-alligator sideshow creature named Jake presides over a free museum packed with strange animals, antique machines, and decades of roadside clutter.

Roadside Attractions

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.

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Reptile World Serpentarium

St. Cloud, Florida

Home to one of the world's largest collections of venomous snakes, Reptile World Serpentarium has been thrilling and educating visitors in Central Florida since 1972. Famous…

Historic Oddities

John J. Makinen Bottle House

Kaleva, Michigan

Built from more than 65,000 glass bottles, the John J. Makinen Bottle House is one of Michigan's most unusual historic structures. Constructed in Kaleva during the…

Historic Oddities

Air Mobility Command Museum

Dover, Delaware

Enormous cargo planes and flying tankers surround a historic hangar at Dover Air Force Base.