Powell, Tennessee
Ciderville Music Store
A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.
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Powell, Tennessee
A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.
Rome, Georgia
World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Brooklyn, New York
Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
New York, New York
New York's oldest magic store.
Nashville, Tennessee
This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.
Pierson, Florida
This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.
DeLand, Florida
The only ancient owl carving found east of the Mississippi.
Chatsworth, Georgia
The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.
Chippewa Bay, New York
This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.
Stillwater, New York
A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.
Rome, New York
A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
East Aurora, New York
This former hub for crafty philosophers was founded by a writer who died aboard the infamous RMS Lusitania.
Petros, Tennessee
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Townsend, Tennessee
In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.
Cherry Log, Georgia
An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Kissimmee, Florida
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.
Celebration, Florida
Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.