Rapid City, South Dakota
Depression Era Dinosaur Park
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
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Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Portland, Oregon
Is this the most Portland place ever?
Midland, South Dakota
Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Delta, Utah
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Montezuma, New Mexico
A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Turner, Oregon
This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.
Portland, Oregon
Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Atlanta, Georgia
Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.
Queens, New York
Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.
Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Oakland, Illinois
An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.
Lincolnshire, Illinois
This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.
Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Grand opera on a miniature scale.
Elsah, Illinois
First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.
Palatine, Illinois
Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.
Chicago, Illinois
A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Chicago, Illinois
This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.