San Francisco, California
The Wreck of the King Philip
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
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San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.
Framingham, Massachusetts
The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
London, England
One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.
Shinnston, West Virginia
A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.
Leicester, Vermont
A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.
Little Compton, Rhode Island
A tribute to Rhode Island's state bird, a domesticated chicken breed that dominated the 19th-century poultry industry.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.
Greenfield, New Hampshire
This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.
Hudson, Massachusetts
One of the smallest churches in the United States is located along the side of the road in a residential neighborhood.
Sedgwick, Maine
This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.
Key West, Florida
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.
Riverside, California
A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.
Holbrook, Arizona
This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.
Anchorage, Alaska
A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances.
Norwich, Connecticut
Abandoned 37.5' diameter rusted metal sphere sitting in the woods.
Washington, D.C.
The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.