Joshua Tree, California
The Station Joshua Tree
Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.
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Joshua Tree, California
Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.
Joshua Tree, California
An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.
Joshua Tree, California
The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."
Hardeeville, South Carolina
A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Seale, Alabama
A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.
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.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
Weskan, Kansas
A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.
Wilson, Kansas
A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.
Abilene, Kansas
Celebrating the cultural heritage of Kansas’s premier cowtown.
Independence, Missouri
This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.
Collinsville, Illinois
Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.
Paducah, Kentucky
A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Monte Vista, Colorado
Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.
Center, Colorado
One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.
Ouray, Colorado
Let Ouray’s tallest waterfall sweep your breath away on a dealer’s choice of scenic hikes.
Durango, Colorado
A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.
Chimney Rock, Colorado
Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.
Bakersfield, California
Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.
Paicines, California
When California condors were hovering on the brink of extinction, this recovery program was charged with helping the birds thrive again.
Bucharest, Romania
This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.