Wall, South Dakota
Wall Drug
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
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Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Erie, Pennsylvania
A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Ponca City, Oklahoma
A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Nowata, Oklahoma
To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.
Catoosa, Oklahoma
Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.
Mansfield, Ohio
This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.
Canton, Ohio
Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.
Maria Stein, Ohio
One of the largest collections of holy relics in the country.
Akron, Ohio
This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.
Mansfield, Ohio
Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.
Dover, Ohio
The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.
Miamisburg, Ohio
The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Jamestown, North Dakota
A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.
Regent, North Dakota
One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.