Alamogordo, New Mexico
PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio
This is one really big nut.
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Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.
Atlanta, Georgia
Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Blue Mounds, Wisconsin
This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Lakewood, Colorado
Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Ingram, Texas
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Ansted, West Virginia
The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.
Dublin, Ohio
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
Los Angeles, California
Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.
Creede, Colorado
This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.
Evanston, Illinois
Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.
Williston, Florida
A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.
Miami, Florida
Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.
Winter Park, Florida
Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.