Dubuque, Iowa
Fenelon Place Elevator
For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.
Durant, Oklahoma
World's Largest Peanut
No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Praying Hands
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Wichita Mountains Buffalo Herd
American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.
Chelsea, Oklahoma
Totem Pole Park
This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.
Key West, Florida
U.S. Route 1 Mile 0 Sign
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
Key West, Florida
Hemingway's Last Penny
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Key Largo, Florida
The African Queen
The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.
Titusville, Florida
NASA Vehicle Assembly Building
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch Complex 34
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
St. Augustine, Florida
The Love Trees of St. Augustine
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
Key West, Florida
Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
St. Augustine, Florida
The Fountain of Youth
A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Chiefland, Florida
Manatee Springs State Park
A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Weeki Wachee: ‘City of Live Mermaids’
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
West Lafayette, Indiana
The Smoking Fence
Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.
West Lafayette, Indiana
Fort Ouiatenon
Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.
Santa Claus, Indiana
Santa Claus, Indiana
You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Bilbo Cemetery
This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.
Jacksonville, Florida
The USS Orleck
After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.
New Iberia, Louisiana
Lake Peigneur
A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.
