Walcott, Iowa
Iowa 80 Truck Stop
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
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Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
St. Louis, Missouri
An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.
Tampa, Florida
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
St. Louis, Missouri
A big museum full of little worlds.
Seattle, Washington
Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."
Long Beach, California
The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.
Washington, D.C.
Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.
Pueblo, Colorado
A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.
Richmond, Virginia
Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.
Ypres, Belgium
A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.
Boston, Massachusetts
The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.
Hyde Park, New York
"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
East St. Louis, Illinois
An abandoned meat mecca now serves as an excellent locale for urban exploration.
Cape May, New Jersey
World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.
Olney, Illinois
The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.
Budapest, Hungary
This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
New Windsor, New York
100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.