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34.0910, -118.3751
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Alameda, California
Pacific Pinball Museum
Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.
37.7737, -122.2767
Alameda, California
Alameda Spite House
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
37.7619, -122.2401
Los Angeles, California
Sunken City
Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.
33.7058, -118.2889
Manhattan Beach, California
Light Gate
The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.
33.8870, -118.4107
New Orleans, Louisiana
Marie Laveau's Tomb
The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.
29.9591, -90.0714
Montgomery, Alabama
Casket on the Steiner-Lobman Building
The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.
32.3802, -86.3118
Birmingham, Alabama
'The Storyteller'
This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.
33.5007, -86.7961
Birmingham, Alabama
Statue of Vulcan
A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.
33.4918, -86.7955
Birmingham, Alabama
Sloss Furnaces
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
33.5205, -86.7916
Birmingham, Alabama
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books
A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
33.5165, -86.8058
Houston, Texas
Twilight Epiphany Skyspace
Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.
29.7205, -95.3964
Houston, Texas
Smither Park
A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.
29.7168, -95.3246
Houston, Texas
The Orange Show
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
29.7179, -95.3247
Altadena, California
The Bunny Museum
"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.
34.1905, -118.1316
Culver City, California
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
A modern day curiosity cabinet.
34.0257, -118.3953
Dublin, Ohio
Cornhenge
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
40.0855, -83.1228
Sunol, California
Bosco the Dog Mayor
The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.
37.5942, -121.8872
Sunol-Midtown, California
Sunol Water Temple
A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.
37.5855, -121.8855
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