Catoosa, Oklahoma
Blue Whale of Catoosa
Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.
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Catoosa, Oklahoma
Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Gibsland, Louisiana
Historical marker at the spot where Bonnie and Clyde were killed.
Gibsland, Louisiana
The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.
Monroe, Louisiana
A small World War II museum housed in what was once the largest navigation school in the United States.
Carrabelle, Florida
This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.
Orlando, Florida
A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.
Winter Garden, Florida
An unsuspecting brick building outside Orlando houses decades of train ephemera.
Townsend, Georgia
Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.
Cairo, Illinois
The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Lakeland, Florida
If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.
Lakeland, Florida
A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Webster, Florida
Deep in the Richloam wilderness, a century-old country store is stocked with plenty of stories.
Lakeland, Florida
A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.
Brooksville, Florida
Dozens of giant mermaids are hidden across Florida’s coast in parks, yards, and beaches.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
Natchez, Mississippi
This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.
Ashburn, Georgia
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
Cordele, Georgia
A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.
Chimney Rock, North Carolina
A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Boone, North Carolina
One of the oldest Black communities in western North Carolina and one of the largest Black Mennonite congregations in the country.