Ames, Iowa
Elwood, the World's Tallest Concrete Gnome
Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.
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Ames, Iowa
Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The museum moved on, but the diorama remain.
Bisbee, Arizona
A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Montgomery, Alabama
The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.
Yakutat, Alaska
Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Fairbanks, Alaska
One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.
Savannah, Georgia
Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.
St. Helena Island, South Carolina
The remains of a chapel created for convenience.
Charleston, South Carolina
Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.
Florence, South Carolina
"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.
Bishopville, South Carolina
One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.
Bishopville, South Carolina
A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.
Bowman, South Carolina
This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.
Lexington, Kentucky
Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.
Dublin, Ohio
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
Dayton, Ohio
A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.