Two Harbors, Minnesota
3M Birthplace Museum
This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.
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Two Harbors, Minnesota
This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.
Harvard, Nebraska
The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.
Guatemala
A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.
Castalla, Spain
This site is both a remarkable reminder of the town's mining history and a fantastic government blooper.
Newmarket, England
A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.
West Hartford, Connecticut
This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.
Staufen im Breisgau, Germany
A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.
Somerset, Ohio
The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.
Laadla, Estonia
A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.
London, England
A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.
Irkutsk, Russia
Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Belgrade, Serbia
A misnamed well, with a deep dark past.
Milanovac, Serbia
Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.
Niger
These ancient giraffes are the largest known animal petroglyphs in the world.
Parramatta, Australia
The oldest European burial ground in Australia.
Compton, California
This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.
Long Beach, California
One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.
Long Beach, California
The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.
Los Angeles, California
A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.
Los Angeles, California
A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.
Los Angeles, California
Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.
Los Angeles, California
An enchanted arts space which assumes infinite identities.