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Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur
Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.
43.8871, -101.1318
Seattle, Washington
Scarecrow Video
Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.
47.6659, -122.3171
Minneapolis, Minnesota
University of Minnesota Shoe Tree
No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.
44.9726, -93.2417
Buffalo, New York
Shark Girl
The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.
42.8785, -78.8780
New York, New York
Fearless Girl Statue
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
40.7068, -74.0108
Seattle, Washington
Hammering Man
This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.
47.6070, -122.3381
Jeffrey City, Wyoming
Jeffrey City Ghost Town
This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.
42.4947, -107.8273
Seattle, Washington
Seattle Meowtropolitan Cat Café
Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.
47.6612, -122.3429
North Bend, Washington
Twede's Cafe
Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.
47.4952, -121.7869
Cleveland, Ohio
The Haserot Angel
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
41.5130, -81.5904
Sedro-Woolley, Washington
Northern State Hospital Farm
Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.
48.5334, -122.1930
Seattle, Washington
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
47.6042, -122.3390
Washington, D.C.
Owney the Postal Dog
A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.
38.8981, -77.0082
Seattle, Washington
Fremont Troll
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
47.6512, -122.3477
Seattle, Washington
Lenin Statue of Fremont
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
47.6515, -122.3513
Seattle, Washington
Gum Wall
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
47.6081, -122.3403
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