Queens, New York
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield Memorial Museum
The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.
Chicago, Illinois
The World's Columbian Exhibition of 1893
What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.
Hohenwald, Tennessee
Meriwether Lewis Monument
This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.
Erwin, Tennessee
Lost Cove Settlement
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.
Ansted, West Virginia
Mystery Hole
The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.
Pristina, Kosovo
Kosovo Bill Clinton Statue
A 11-foot former president stands on a Kosovo street that also bears his name.
Valencia, Spain
Parque Gulliver
This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.
London, England
Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Factory Obscura Mix-Tape
An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.
Birmingham, Alabama
Sloss Furnaces
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
