Cullman, Alabama
Ave Maria Grotto
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
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Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
St. Louis, Missouri
What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.
St. Louis, Missouri
The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.
Abita Springs, Louisiana
A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Casper, Wyoming
Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Little America, Wyoming
Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.
Polldubh, Scotland
The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Casper, Wyoming
A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
Chiemsee, Germany
Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.