Zebulon, North Carolina
Mercury Cougar
A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.
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Zebulon, North Carolina
A giant cat slowly prowls the parking lot of Zebulon's car dealerships.
Pasadena, California
Pasadena’s Stonehenge.
Kent, Ohio
Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.
Amarillo, Texas
A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.
Crystal Falls, Michigan
Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.
Oakland, California
A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026
Elkhart, Indiana
A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.
Cleveland, South Carolina
According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.
Adak, Alaska
America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.
Ogallala, Nebraska
A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.
Panhandle, Texas
The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.
Fort Stockton, Texas
The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.
Brunswick, Maine
This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.
Belvedere Tiburon, California
Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
Eureka, Missouri
This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.
Kansas City, Missouri
Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.
Britt, Iowa
Largest gathering of hobos in the country has been meeting annually since 1900.
Brooklyn, New York
2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Syracuse, New York
A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.
Washington, D.C.
A portal into the bricked up canal that runs through the heart of Washington D.C.
Vernon, Florida
For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.
Chincoteague Island, Virginia
The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.
Sundance, Wyoming
This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.