Eden, New York
Original American Kazoo Company
This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.
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Eden, New York
This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Paris, France
This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Liverpool, England
The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.
Liverpool, England
The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.
Paris, France
Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Cloyne, Ontario
A massive, fading granite poem is all that remains of one Whitman superfan's tribute to the famous writer.
Red Hook, New York
For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Sodus, New York
A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.
Toronto, Ontario
A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.
Toronto, Ontario
The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
New Haven, Connecticut
Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Cold Spring Harbor, New York
Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Cambridge, Maryland
Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.