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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Peach Springs, AZ
An elevator descends roughly 200 feet into a large dry cave system beneath Route 66. Tours, old civil-defense supplies and the underground suite make the caverns an unusually deep roadside attraction.
Coulee Dam, WA
One of North America's largest concrete structures spans the Columbia River here, creating an almost absurdly large piece of human engineering. The visitor center interprets the dam, hydroelectric system, and regional impacts.
Yellowstone National Park, WY
The world's tallest predictable fountain-type geyser, capable of sending powerful bursts high above the Upper Geyser Basin.
Thayer, MO
Grand Gulf is a collapsed cave system often described as Missouri's 'Little Grand Canyon.' Visitors can view the deep chasm from rim trails and, when conditions allow, descend designated routes into portions of the natural feature.
Grand Haven, MI
Operating since 1962, this enormous synchronized fountain sends water more than 100 feet into the air while lights and music are choreographed to the jets. Free shows run on seasonal evenings, so the installation is a legitimate stop only when the fountain's current show calendar is active.
Richmond, VA
The Grand Kugel outside the Science Museum of Virginia is a roughly 29-ton granite globe that appears to float and rotate on an extremely thin layer of pressurized water. The current globe replaced an earlier damaged version, and visitors can still push the enormous stone sphere by hand when the fountain system is operating.
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A massive rainbow-ringed hot spring whose vivid microbial mats make it one of the strangest natural sights in the park.
Piercy, CA
A huge old-growth redwood anchors a traditional roadside stop where travelers can stand beside one of the North Coast's most photographed surviving giants.
Simi Valley, CA
Tressa Prisbrey built shrines, houses, walkways and gardens from thousands of discarded bottles and found objects beginning in the 1950s. Access is by scheduled preservation events and tours.
Cedar Rapids, IA
Grant Wood lived and worked in this converted carriage-house studio and painted several major works here. The compact interior preserves the artist's hand-built details and gives American Gothic a second physical Iowa connection.
Grants Pass, OR
A 22-foot fiberglass caveman installed in 1971 guards the city's visitor center, an oversized survivor of the Oregon Cavemen promotional tradition.
Lefor, ND
Giant metal grasshoppers loom over a roadside field, transforming a familiar Plains insect into a monumental roadside scene. A designated pull-off makes it one of the easier Enchanted Highway sculptures to inspect up close.
Lucas, KS
This museum preserves Kansas folk, self-taught, and grassroots art made by people working outside conventional fine-art systems. The collection is especially useful as a gateway to the many eccentric art environments scattered across north-central Kansas.
Poplar Branch, NC
The home base of the Grave Digger monster truck has become a roadside attraction filled with retired trucks, memorabilia, displays, animals, and other motorsports oddities. Current operations also include monster-truck ride experiences on selected days.
Tahlequah, OK
A grave marker on private land is associated with Bamboo Harvester, the horse best known for portraying Mister Ed on television. This should be treated as a permission-only pilgrimage point, not an invitation to enter the property unannounced.
Hatteras, NC
This museum is dedicated to the thousands of shipwrecks, storms, wars, rescues, pirates, and maritime disasters associated with the dangerous waters off the Outer Banks. Its location near Hatteras Inlet puts it directly beside the landscape that earned the region the name “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
Medford, MA
A monument at Tufts University recalls eccentric businessman Roger Babson's Gravity Research Foundation, established partly from his desire to understand — and potentially defeat — gravity. Babson funded anti-gravity research monuments on college campuses across the country after blaming gravity for a family drowning.
Winston-Salem, NC
This sprawling 1930s estate looks more like a transplanted European manor than a North Carolina mansion. Its 60-room design mixes medieval and Renaissance influences with extravagant details including marble tubs, gold fixtures, numerous radios, and showers originally fitted with 17 heads. Current tours: https://www.visitwinstonsalem.com/event/tour-pour-du-jour-graylyn-estate-1
Carlisle, MA
At a working dairy farm inside Great Brook Farm State Park, cows can use an automated robotic milking system largely on their own schedule. Visitors can see modern dairy technology operating inside a historic New England farm landscape; barn access and demonstrations vary by season and program.
Yellowstone National Park, WY
A large fountain-type geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin that erupts from a terraced sinter platform.
Eureka Springs, AR
This long-running outdoor biblical production occupies a large hillside complex complete with theatrical sets, museums and religious attractions. Its scale and setting make it unusual even outside performance nights.
Hartford, CT
The Connecticut Science Center displays a genuine lunar sample associated with Apollo astronaut David Scott. It is a small object with an enormous backstory: a physical piece of the Moon sitting in downtown Hartford.
Luray, VA
The Great Stalacpipe Organ is a working musical instrument that uses rubber-tipped strikers to play carefully selected stalactites spread through Luray Caverns. Built in the 1950s, it turns the cave itself into the instrument and can be heard as part of the normal cavern tour.
Danville, VT
Each season, this farm builds an enormous multi-acre corn maze intended to take visitors hours rather than minutes to solve. The attraction changes annually and has also featured smaller mazes and nighttime or blacklight experiences.
