Irving, Texas
'Mustangs of Las Colinas'
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
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Irving, Texas
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
International Falls, Minnesota
Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.
Tower, Minnesota
Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.
Rothsay, Minnesota
The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.
New Salem, North Dakota
The world's largest Holstein cow.
Des Moines, New Mexico
This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.
Tombstone, Arizona
An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.
Bisbee, Arizona
This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.
Bisbee, Arizona
This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.
Bisbee, Arizona
A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.
Blackfoot, Idaho
This museum glorifies the humble potato.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Mackinaw City, Michigan
A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.
Ironwood, Michigan
A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.
Laramie, Wyoming
The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.