Rocheport, Missouri
Rocheport River Gnome
This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.
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Rocheport, Missouri
This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.
Douglas, Arizona
Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.
Chardon, Ohio
Pay your respects at the final resting place of the man behind one of the best-known names in food.
Houston, Texas
Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.
Naours, France
A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.
Dublin, Ireland
Tiny silver and copper fish set inside blue-green lights are like windows to the underwater world.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This giant foot is all that remains of a massive concrete play structure that once stood on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
Washington, D.C.
Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.
Zurich, Switzerland
Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.
Chicago, Illinois
In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
Hiratsuka, Japan
The burial site of 16 men’s hair buns, which were lopped off in place of their heads.
Moapa Valley, Nevada
The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.
Sønderborg, Denmark
This colossal hiking boot, once built for a scout jamboree, serves as an observation tower and barbecue area.
Mesquite, Nevada
The remote graves of a Scottish family who died of thirst while attempting to reach St. George.
Palmdale, California
The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.
London, England
This sculpture of a pylon is upside down and askew, as if its main purpose is to confuse passersby.
Washington, D.C.
This rowhouse doubles as one of the most photographed spots in the nation's capital.
Winslow, Arizona
A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.
Trenton, Maine
Since 1956, this quintessentially New England seafood shack has been boiling its lobsters in seawater over wood fires.
Bellville, Ohio
This 35-foot-tall hamburger-toting chef is said to be the largest bobblehead in the world.
Winter Park, Colorado
The walls, tables, and much of the ceiling in this pizzeria are covered with $40,000 in $1 bills.