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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Le Claire, IA
The original Antique Archaeology shop is associated with the television series American Pickers and occupies a former fabrication property near the Mississippi River. Visitors can browse vintage signs, motorcycles and show-related memorabilia.
Whittier, AK
The 2.5-mile tunnel through Maynard Mountain is shared by one-lane road traffic and trains, with vehicles moving through on a timed schedule. It is the only land route into Whittier and one of the state's strangest pieces of transportation infrastructure.
Cougar, WA
A long lava tube created by ancient Mount St. Helens eruptions lets visitors walk underground through volcanic rock rather than limestone. Seasonal road conditions, cave conditions, and current reservation rules should be checked before visiting.
Cornucopia, WI
Lake Superior has carved arches, chambers and cliffside caves into the Apostle Islands sandstone. In warm seasons visitors reach overlooks by trail or the caves by water; in rare safe winters ice can transform the formations completely. Conditions must be checked before attempting access.
Mount Jackson, VA
Mount Jackson turned an otherwise ordinary municipal water tower into an enormous basket of apples as a tribute to the Shenandoah Valley's apple-growing heritage. The painted tower has been a roadside landmark for decades and remains easily visible from Interstate 81 and nearby public roads.
Calvert City, KY
This former roadside store has evolved into a sprawling collection of pun-heavy junk sculptures, folk art, vintage toys and old gas-station memorabilia. The outdoor Hillbilly Garden and indoor Toyland collection contain thousands of objects arranged with intentionally eccentric humor.
Lithonia, GA
A broad granite monadnock creates a stark, almost lunar landscape of exposed stone, solution pools and rare plant communities southeast of Atlanta. Trails cross the rock, but visitors should stay on durable surfaces and avoid fragile seasonal pools.
Sioux Falls, SD
A massive stainless-steel arc rises from both banks of the Big Sioux River but deliberately leaves a gap high above the water. The missing section represents the leap required to turn a dream into reality and gives downtown Sioux Falls one of the state's largest modern sculptures.
Arcadia, OK
Built in 1898, this circular wooden barn survived long enough to become one of Oklahoma Route 66's signature landmarks. Its unusual round construction and restored loft make it substantially stranger than an ordinary agricultural museum.
Archbald, PA
A glacial waterfall drilled this enormous vertical pothole into bedrock thousands of years ago, leaving a cavity roughly large enough to hold dozens of fire trucks' worth of water. A viewing platform inside Archbald Pothole State Park lets visitors look directly into the formation during park hours.
Helena, MT
A former brickworks transformed into an internationally known ceramics center, where kilns, brick ruins, studios, and outdoor ceramic installations cover the grounds.
Mayer, AZ
Paolo Soleri's experimental 'arcology' has been under construction in the high desert since 1970, combining apartments, workshops, vaults and communal spaces into a compact futuristic settlement. Tours explain both the architecture and the incomplete social experiment behind it.
Skagway, AK
Thousands of pieces of driftwood cover the false front of this 1899 fraternal hall, giving it one of the strangest facades in Alaska. The building now functions as a visitor-oriented landmark, but the exterior itself is the main OddWay draw.
Dalton Highway, AK
A large roadside sign marks the point where the Dalton Highway crosses the Arctic Circle at roughly 66 degrees 33 minutes north. The location is remote, has limited services and requires serious road preparation, but it provides a precise physical marker for an otherwise invisible latitude line.
St. Francis, KS
Deep ravines and rugged loess formations cut through the far northwest corner of Kansas, producing terrain more often associated with neighboring states. Most land is private, but the breaks can be viewed from lawful public gravel roads.
Phoenix, AZ
A historic canal drop has been turned into a working hydroelectric plant wrapped in public art and pedestrian space. Water, machinery and architecture occupy the same compact site beside the Arizona Canal.
Kingman, AZ
Inside Kingman's historic Powerhouse, exhibits trace travel across northern Arizona from wagon roads to Route 66 tourism. Vehicles, signs and roadside displays make it a useful anchor for understanding the oddities along the road outside.
Williamstown, KY
The centerpiece of this religious theme park is an enormous timber-frame interpretation of Noah's Ark measuring more than 500 feet long. The scale of the structure makes it a legitimate roadside architectural oddity, while its exhibits present a young-Earth creationist interpretation rather than mainstream scientific geology and biology.
Hot Springs, AR
Operating since 1902, this old-school animal attraction includes live alligators and a famously strange preserved 'merman' display. The mix of roadside zoo history and odd taxidermy is pure OddWay.
Little Rock, AR
The Arkansas State Capitol is built on the site of the former state penitentiary and incorporates stone quarried by prison labor. Its grand dome and unusual site history give it more OddWay relevance than a typical capitol.
Irvington, NY
This exuberant pink Victorian residence was transformed in the 1870s into an eight-sided domed house inspired by nineteenth-century octagon-house theories. It remains a private residence, and both the house and grounds are accessible only through advance ticketed guided tours.
Bend, OR
A lava-tube cave east of Bend can retain ice well into warm weather; it is undeveloped, unlit and subject to rough-road and cave hazards.
Columbus, OH
An approximately eight-foot bronze statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger in a bodybuilding pose stands outside the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The sculpture honors Schwarzenegger's long connection to Columbus and the Arnold Sports Festival and is freely visible from the public plaza.
Arnolds Park, IA
The wooden Legend roller coaster dates to 1930 and remains the signature ride of one of America's oldest amusement parks. Its lakeside setting and traditional wood construction preserve an increasingly rare form of amusement history.
