Chicken, Alaska
Chicken of Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
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Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
Eagle, Alaska
The northernmost international land border crossing in the United States.
Watson Lake, Yukon
Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.
Toad River, British Columbia
At a lodge and RV park is a collection of headwear that comes in at more than 11,300 and counting.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.
Oquawka, Illinois
A memorial dedicated to a traveling circus elephant killed by a lightning strike in 1972.
Washington, D.C.
Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
This is the cabin from which John Brown and his men launched their fateful war to end slavery on October 16, 1859.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Fairfield, Ohio
An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.
West Chester, Ohio
The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.
Washington, D.C.
Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.
Dayton, Ohio
The childhood home of the Wright Brothers in Dayton.
Washington, D.C.
This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.
Washington, D.C.
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
McLean, Virginia
The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.
Lewes, Delaware
What if the Fountain of Youth was actually found in Delaware? One historic coastal town believes it to be true.
Springfield, Illinois
This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.
Fairfax, Virginia
A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.
Thurmont, Maryland
A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.
Thurmont, Maryland
Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.
Broad Run, Virginia
This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.