Cullman, Alabama
Ave Maria Grotto
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
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Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Marshall, Michigan
Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.
Battle Creek, Michigan
A massive portrait of Abraham Lincoln created with approximately 24,500 pennies.
Hickory Corners, Michigan
Home to over 300 antique cars and motorcycles, including Thomas Edison's Model A.
Cordele, Georgia
A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.
Ashburn, Georgia
A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.
Islamorada, Florida
This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Ochopee, Florida
This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.
Ochopee, Florida
In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.
Ochopee, Florida
The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Fort Myers, Florida
One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.
Estero, Florida
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.
Macon, Georgia
The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Dearborn, Michigan
One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.