Borrego Springs, California
Pegleg Smith Monument
A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.
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Borrego Springs, California
A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
La Quinta, California
A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.
Indio, California
A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
Orange, Massachusetts
A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.
Orange, Massachusetts
The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Rockport, Massachusetts
An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.
Worcester, Massachusetts
On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.
Leverett, Massachusetts
This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.
Heath, Massachusetts
A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.
Worcester, Massachusetts
The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.
Hillsdale, New York
Eight whimsical acres of metal art.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
New Haven, Connecticut
Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.
New Haven, Connecticut
A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.
Nashua, New Hampshire
This mural celebrates the early integration of a New Hampshire baseball team.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.
Springfield, Massachusetts
The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.
Ware, Massachusetts
The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.