Sevierville, Tennessee
Smoky Mountain Knife Works
While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.
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Sevierville, Tennessee
While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
St. Petersburg, Florida
The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.
Herndon, Virginia
Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.
Herndon, Virginia
A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.
Sterling, Virginia
This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.
McLean, Virginia
The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.
Great Falls, Virginia
This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.
Herndon, Virginia
An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.
Great Falls, Virginia
The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.
Arlington, Virginia
This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.
Gainesville, Florida
Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.
Gainesville, Florida
The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.
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.
Buffalo, New York
Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.
Buffalo, New York
A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.
Buffalo, New York
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.
Buffalo, New York
The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.
Buffalo, New York
Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.
Buffalo, New York
This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.
Buffalo, New York
An unprepossessing stone marks the last resting place of one of the most accomplished Native Americans in history.
Buffalo, New York
An elaborate memorial to a man local legend says died of a broken heart.