Places Edited by breaingram

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.