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Looking southeasterly over the arrow.

Woolsey, Nevada

Lovelock Airmail Arrow

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

Leaning Tower of Niles

Niles, Illinois

Leaning Tower of Niles

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

Forestiere Underground Gardens, Fresno, CA, 7/13/2019

Fresno, California

Forestiere Underground Gardens

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Aerial shot of the field

Lincoln, Massachusetts

Ponyhenge

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Tip of the arrow, looking back west.  The skylined mountains are Boca Ridge in California.  The blue paint is _not_ original.

Reno, Nevada

Airmail Arrow

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

City Museum

St. Louis, Missouri

City Museum

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The outside of the museum, complete with M&M greeters and half of a "Barney Smith Day" sign.

The Colony, Texas

Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

Texas Triffid Ranch
Permanently Closed

Richardson, Texas

Texas Triffid Ranch

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

The carousel - minus the usual middle pole

New York, New York

The SeaGlass Carousel

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The praying mantis on the ride. Photo:

Bronx, New York

Bronx Zoo Bug Carousel

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Scott Harrison built this just for you

Nederland, Colorado

Carousel of Happiness

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

The Dolphin Fountain

Melbourne, Australia

The Dolphin Fountain

Somewhat controversial when first unveiled, this gathering of sea creatures has become a hidden gem.

Mos Espa set.

Naftah, Tunisia

Leftover 'Star Wars' Sets

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Indian Pueblo Kitchen

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Indian Pueblo Kitchen

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Hard Luck Mine Castle

Goldfield, Nevada

Hard Luck Mine Castle

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The secret entrance to the Knickerbocker Hotel (detail)

New York, New York

The Secret Entrance to the Knickerbocker Hotel

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

The beautifully tiled Art Deco tunnel hidden underneath 34th street.

New York, New York

The Hidden Art Deco Tunnel Underneath the New Yorker Hotel

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

Guarded by attack dog
Permanently Closed

Peach Springs, Arizona

Grand Canyon Caverns Underground Suite

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Caverns Grotto

Peach Springs, Arizona

Caverns Grotto

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Bronze casts of where the Beatles sat

Plymouth, England

Beatle Bums

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

The New York Earth Room

New York, New York

The New York Earth Room

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Rows of railings.

London, England

London's Stretcher Railings

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

A romantic flamingo dinner.
Permanently Closed

Round Rock, Texas

The Flamingo House

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

Tunnel at the end of the road.

Bryson City, North Carolina

The Road to Nowhere

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

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