Danville, Virginia
AAF Tank Museum
This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.
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Danville, Virginia
This sprawling museum holds one man's giant collection of real tanks.
Tinajo, Spain
Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.
Groom, Texas
This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.
Orkney, Scotland
The true age of this ancient stone circle is unknown, but its stunning vista isn't in question.
Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
This mysterious abandoned fort looks like something pulled right from Arabian legend.
Cartersville, Georgia
These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
Dover, Delaware
The Dover International Speedway is home to a towering, concrete-skinned, racecar-hungry behemoth.
Bushland, Texas
The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.
Amarillo, Texas
These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.
Amarillo, Texas
A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Boston, Massachusetts
Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.
Hartland, New Brunswick
The world's longest covered bridge is a quaint and incredible wooden tunnel.
Giessen, Germany
This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.
Giessen, Germany
Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.
Bucharest, Romania
Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.
Reutlingen, Germany
The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.
Clarksville, Indiana
The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Ames, Iowa
The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.
Cramlington, England
A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.
Lynn, Indiana
The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.