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Wibaux, Montana
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.
46.9905, -104.1865
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia
Cathedral Falls
The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.
38.1548, -81.1784
Knoxville, Tennessee
Airplane Filling Station
Once a gas station, this flightless airplane beside the Old Dixie Highway now houses a barbershop.
36.0075, -84.0312
Mt Nebo, West Virginia
Summersville Lake Lighthouse
A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.
38.1997, -80.8645
Holly Springs, Mississippi
Mittie Manning's Tomb
This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.
34.7631, -89.4462
Chugwater, Wyoming
Chugwater Soda Fountain
A small Wyoming town is home to the state's oldest-operating soda fountain.
41.7569, -104.8216
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
Camak Stone
This stone incorrectly marks the 35th parallel, causing some territorial kerfuffles.
34.9847, -85.6052
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Pettah Floating Market
Pettah's beautiful floating market was once a stinky canal in a sketchy industrial area.
6.9329, 79.8554
New York, New York
Gay Liberation
The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.
40.7337, -74.0019
Mayfield, Kentucky
The Strange Procession Which Never Moves
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
36.7476, -88.6332
Knoxville, Tennessee
The Sunsphere
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
35.9617, -83.9232
New York, New York
C. O. Bigelow Apothecary
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
40.7339, -73.9992
Bayard, Nebraska
Chimney Rock
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
41.7029, -103.3486
Lemmon, South Dakota
Hugh Glass Monument
This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.
45.7422, -102.2327
Las Vegas, Nevada
Burlesque Hall of Fame
This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.
36.1601, -115.1530
Guernsey, Wyoming
Register Cliff
Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.
42.2697, -104.7416
Lemmon, South Dakota
Petrified Wood Park
An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.
45.9399, -102.1594
Mumbai, India
Antilia
World's most expensive home.
19.0176, 72.8562
New York, New York
Greenwich Locksmith
Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.
40.7314, -74.0043
Chester, New Jersey
Cooper's Mill
A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.
40.7788, -74.7212
Alliance, Nebraska
Carhenge
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
42.1386, -102.8591
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