Columbia, South Carolina
Hootie & The Blowfish Boulevard
One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.
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Columbia, South Carolina
One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.
Columbia, South Carolina
An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.
Columbia, South Carolina
The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.
Columbia, South Carolina
This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.
Columbia, South Carolina
This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.
Cayce, South Carolina
A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.
Elma, Washington
From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.
Olympia, Washington
Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.
Oregon City, Oregon
The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.
Oregon City, Oregon
Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.
Toutle, Washington
Outside this souvenir shop is a statue of Bigfoot composed of volcanic ash, and plenty more to see inside.
Cougar, Washington
The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.
Cougar, Washington
This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Ashford, Washington
Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.
Tacoma, Washington
A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.