Gravesend, England
The Resting Place of Pocahontas
The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.
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Gravesend, England
The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.
Great Missenden, England
This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).
Faringdon, England
The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.
Oxford, England
The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
Below this enormous headstone lie Billy and Benny McCrary, better known as the "McGuire Twins."
Morganton, North Carolina
An eclectic store sells obscure vinyl recordings of Charles Manson and Jim Jones, along with many other oddities.
Asheville, North Carolina
This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.
Maggie Valley, North Carolina
An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.
Beech Mountain, North Carolina
A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.
Hibbing, Minnesota
Where one of America's greatest songwriters lived before he was Bob Dylan.
Little Falls, Minnesota
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Kelliher, Minnesota
A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.
Angle Inlet, Minnesota
America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.
Darwin, Minnesota
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."
Minnesota
When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.
Cloquet, Minnesota
The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
This downtown statue pays tribute to the Native American game that gave the city of La Crosse its name.
Woodruff, Wisconsin
In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.