New Paltz, New York
Mohonk Testimonial Gateway
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
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New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Red Hook, New York
A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.
Sevierville, Tennessee
While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Sylva, North Carolina
This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.
Cleveland, Georgia
A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.
Walhalla, South Carolina
An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Frankenmuth, Michigan
World's largest Christmas store.
Traverse City, Michigan
Former self-sufficient mental institution now a planned community.
Traverse City, Michigan
An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.
Elmira, Michigan
This scenic overlook commemorates the tragic death of a soon-to-be-married lumberjack.
Kalkaska, Michigan
This tremendous trout welcomes visitors to a northern Michigan town with a rich fishing history.
Lincoln, Ontario
The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Mears, Michigan
An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.
Büsingen am Hochrhein, Germany
A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.
Chicago, Illinois
A Bibliophile's Dream.
Tampa, Florida
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.