San Quentin, California
San Quentin Prison Gift Shop
This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.
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San Quentin, California
This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Tokyo, Japan
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
East St. Louis, Illinois
Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.
Vandalia, Illinois
Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.
Amarillo, Texas
These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.
Chesterfield, Missouri
A sculpture of a giant man escaping from the depths of the Earth.
Columbia, Missouri
Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.
Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.
Montezuma, New Mexico
A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.
Loogootee, Indiana
One man's goal to be surrounded by color resulted in this enchanting assortment of avian abodes.
Evansville, Indiana
Patrick Dougherty's fantastic living tree sculptures, mind-blowing but temporary.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.
Amarillo, Texas
A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Black Canyon City, Arizona
Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.
Mayer, Arizona
An urban laboratory.
Phoenix, Arizona
A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Iowa City, Iowa
A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.