Baltimore, Maryland
Papermoon Diner
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
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Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
South Bristol, Maine
For nearly 200 years the same family has harvested ice from a small pond in eastern Maine.
Soda Springs, Idaho
Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.
East St. Louis, Illinois
Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.
Island Park, Idaho
A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Columbus, Georgia
A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.
Gladbrook, Iowa
A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.
Columbia Falls, Maine
This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.
Foxworth, Mississippi
A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.
Walker, Louisiana
World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.
Hyattsville, Maryland
An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.
Elberta, Alabama
Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.
Lutcher, Louisiana
A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.
Edgard, Louisiana
This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
Sandy Hook, Mississippi
One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.
Chesterfield, Missouri
A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.
Memphis, Tennessee
Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.