Coober Pedy, Australia
Coober Pedy
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.
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Coober Pedy, Australia
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.
Mount Barry, Australia
The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.
Ona, Florida
Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.
Newark, Ohio
An office built to look like a giant basket.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Knoxville, Maryland
This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.
Winchester, Virginia
The Grand Ole Opry's big voice came from a small home in rural Virginia where she was eventually buried.
White Post, Virginia
An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Orlando, Florida
A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.
Celebration, Florida
Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.
Lake Wales, Florida
Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.
Lake Wales, Florida
A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.
Lakeland, Florida
A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.
Plant City, Florida
Nearly 200 prehistoric giants lurk among the trees at this theme park.
Seffner, Florida
An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.
Tarpon Springs, Florida
This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."
Tarpon Springs, Florida
Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Fort Myers, Florida
One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.
Tampa, Florida
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.