Places Edited by Edward Denny

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

This simple stone memorial remembers a secret, Geneva Convention-defying interrogation base from WWII.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This small New York museum celebrates the mountainous artwork of a Russian mystic.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

"You can only scalp a customer once, but you can give him a haircut every two weeks"-Barber's Maxim.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.