College Park, Maryland
Pinball Parlor at MOM's Organic Market
Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.
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College Park, Maryland
Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.
Simi Valley, California
The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Sterling, Massachusetts
This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.
Peshtigo, Wisconsin
A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.
Los Angeles, California
The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.
Boston, Massachusetts
A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.
Monticello, Florida
This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.
Columbus, Georgia
Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.
Clinton, Massachusetts
This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.
Chicago, Illinois
This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.
Lucas, Kansas
This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.
Sylacauga, Alabama
A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.
Williamsburg, Michigan
Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.
Chicago, Illinois
Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.
Salisbury, Connecticut
The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.
Hartford, Connecticut
A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.
San Bernardino County, California
The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.
New York, New York
On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.
Duluth, Minnesota
Home to part of the world’s largest private collection of original manuscripts and documents.
Little Rock, Arkansas
A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.
Cornish, New Hampshire
The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Cedar Key, Florida
A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.