Kansas City, Missouri
World's Largest Shuttlecocks
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
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Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Ashford, Washington
The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Stevenson, Washington
An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.
Cougar, Washington
The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Barcelona, Spain
The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Lille, France
This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.
Lille, France
Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.
Roubaix, France
Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.
Phoenix, Arizona
The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.
Phoenix, Arizona
The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.
Picacho, Arizona
Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.
Phoenix, Arizona
Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.
Mesa, Arizona
These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.
Phoenix, Arizona
A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
Phoenix, Arizona
A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.
Jerome, Arizona
Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.
Apache Junction, Arizona
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
Pine, Arizona
The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.
Benson, Arizona
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