Chicago, Illinois
The Wieners Circle
A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.
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Chicago, Illinois
A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Agua Dulce, California
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
Chicago, Illinois
Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.
Yucca, Arizona
This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.
Berlin, Germany
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
Prague, Czechia
Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.
Prague, Czechia
Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.
Prague, Czechia
Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
Cambria, California
A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Gold Hill, Oregon
A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.
Los Angeles, California
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.