Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Rock City
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
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Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Burk's Falls, Ontario
A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.
Houston, Texas
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Bellville, Texas
A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.
Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
Cross Village, Michigan
Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Tucson, Arizona
The Magical World of George Phar Legler.
San Diego, California
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Pioneertown, California
A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.
Williams, Arizona
An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.
Topanga, California
An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.
Santa Barbara, California
This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.
Barstow, California
Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Verona, Wisconsin
Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.
Polson, Montana
With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."
Idaho City, Idaho
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
Kamiah, Idaho
This landmark is a central figure in the Nez Perce origin story.
Wallace, Idaho
After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.
Wallace, Idaho
This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.