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October 2022

Los Angeles, California

Pink's Hot Dogs

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Hollywood Forever

Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Mojave Megaphone

Baker, California

Mojave Megaphone

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A part that is similar to a Silver Bridge eye bar. The eye bars did the job that suspension cables do in modern bridges.

Gallipolis, Ohio

Silver Bridge Disaster Memorial

The failure of one component toppled this entire bridge during rush hour.

 Christening ceremonies for USS Shenandoah, 10 October 1923

Buffalo Township, Ohio

Crash Site of the USS Shenandoah

The crash of this great airship signaled the beginning of the end for dirigibles.

Roadside birdhouses.

Moscow, Maine

Million Dollar Birdhouse Wall

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

The wreckage and memorial.

Greenville, Maine

B52 Crash Site

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

Wide enough for a couple of horses...  and maybe one car

New Portland, Maine

Wire Bridge

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

The statue in situ in West Philadelphia's Clark Park.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dickens and Little Nell

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

Side view

Bensalem, Pennsylvania

Wat Mongkoltepmunee

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

Elfreth's Alley

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Elfreth's Alley

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The entrance to Fernweh Park

Oberkotzau, Germany

Fernweh Park

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

The Challenger Memorial at its prior home along Memorial Park. A block of South African granite serves as the surface for the illustration of The Challenger, while the other lists the names of the astronauts who perished in the explosion.

Montpelier, Vermont

Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

Historical Marker

Granger, Wyoming

Granger Stage Station

Mark Twain once stopped at this rest station during his journey to Nevada.

Sinclair Gas Station

Elberta, Utah

Sinclair Gas Station

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

Havasupai Falls

Supai, Arizona

Havasupai Falls

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Medicine Wheel, a Native American sacred site in Wyoming.

Lovell, Wyoming

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

Tomnadashan Copper Mine.

Ardtalnaig, Scotland

Tomnadashan Mine

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

The Lonely Parking Meter

Winters, California

The Lonely Parking Meter

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3

Whitehorse, Yukon

The World's Largest Weathervane, a DC-3

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Welcome to Lost Springs. (Larry Page/Flickr)

Shawnee, Wyoming

Lost Springs

Population: 1.

Roadside park with marker

Peshtigo, Wisconsin

45th Parallel Marker

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

Conor Byrne Pub

Seattle, Washington

Conor Byrne Pub

One of the oldest continually operating drinking establishments west of the Mississippi.

Blue Moon Tavern

Seattle, Washington

Blue Moon Tavern

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

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