Riverview, Florida
International Independent Showmen’s Museum
The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.
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Riverview, Florida
The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.
Gibsonton, Florida
The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Seffner, Florida
An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.
Live Oak, Florida
This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.
White Springs, Florida
The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Ashburn, Georgia
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
Perry, Georgia
Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.
Decatur, Georgia
Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
The pan man stands as a testament to the functionality of American cast iron cookware.
Nashville, Tennessee
A heartwarming message to those entering and departing Music City from above.
Erin, Tennessee
Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.
Dover, Tennessee
A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.
Smithland, Kentucky
An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Tiptonville, Kentucky
Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.
Alto Pass, Illinois
Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.
Collinsville, Illinois
Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.
Alton, Illinois
This life-size bronze statue remembers the tallest recorded human in his Illinois hometown.
St. Louis, Missouri
A big museum full of little worlds.
Eureka, Missouri
This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.
Sullivan, Missouri
400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Kansas City, Missouri
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.