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Photo taken in April 2025

Oshkosh, Wisconsin

The Original ‘Backrooms’ Location (John’s Hobbies)

In 2019, an anonymous photo of a windowless room with eerie yellow wallpaper was posted to 4chan from this building, launching 'The Backrooms', one of the internet’s most massive collaborative horror phenomena.

Mass Grave of unclaimed victims of the Peshtigo Fire

Peshtigo, Wisconsin

Peshtigo Fire Museum

A museum devoted to the victims and the survivors of the most catastrophic fire in American history.

Illinois' Original Burger King from streetside

Mattoon, Illinois

Illinois’ Original Burger King

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

The Barnes grave.

Ashmore, Illinois

St. Omer Cemetery Witch Grave

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

Little Chute Windmill

Little Chute, Wisconsin

Little Chute Windmill

An authentic Dutch windmill, built in the Netherlands and shipped to Wisconsin.

Chicago Temple

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Temple

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

The sign before it was covered in stickers.

Chicago, Illinois

Beginning (and End) of Historic Route 66

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

1810s English Rotunda, Thorne Miniature Rooms

Chicago, Illinois

Thorne Miniature Rooms

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Roadside park with marker

Peshtigo, Wisconsin

45th Parallel Marker

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

World's Largest Fork

Springfield, Missouri

World's Largest Fork

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The Healing Stone

Skiatook, Oklahoma

The Healing Stone of Skiatook

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

Playtower in 2010

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Playtower

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

Price Tower

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Price Tower

The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Diamondback Bridge

Tucson, Arizona

Rattlesnake Bridge

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Harney Peak, The Highest Point in South Dakota

Keystone, South Dakota

Black Elk Peak

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Albert The Bull

Audubon, Iowa

Albert The Bull

The World's Largest Bull.

Palo Duro Canyon

Canyon, Texas

Palo Duro Canyon

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Alamogordo Landfill

Alamogordo, New Mexico

Alamogordo Landfill

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

Recycled Roadrunner Statue

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Recycled Roadrunner Statue

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

Desert landscape encroaching.

Tucson, Arizona

Lisa Frank Factory

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

Post Office Oak

Council Grove, Kansas

Post Office Oak

Once a giant oak that served as the region's post office.

A partial view of the Davis Monthan Air Force Base via GoogleEarth.
Permanently Closed

Tucson, Arizona

309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Roswell McDonalds

Roswell, New Mexico

Roswell McDonald's

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

World's Largest Pistachio

Alamogordo, New Mexico

PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio

This is one really big nut.

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