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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Bangor, ME
A storm drain at the corner of Union and Jackson streets is locally identified as an inspiration for the infamous sewer imagery in Stephen King’s IT. It is an ordinary piece of city infrastructure, so this is a quick public-street stop rather than an attraction to enter or disturb.
Weatherford, OK
Artist Corey Fuller's installation combines sixteen hand-painted signs into one billboard-like collage made from reclaimed wood. It deliberately recreates the visual clutter and nostalgia of old highway advertising.
Westbrook, CT
The bridge over the Patchogue River became famous for the musical hum produced as vehicle tires crossed its metal roadway. Rebuilding altered the original structure, but the town preserved the bridge's unusual open-grate character and its long-running 'singing' identity.
New Orleans, LA
Wind chimes tuned to a pentatonic scale hang high in a live oak near Big Lake in City Park, creating shifting music whenever the breeze moves through the branches. The installation is outdoors and freely viewable during park access.
Sinks Canyon, WY
The Popo Agie River disappears into a limestone cavern here, beginning an underground route that still is not fully mapped.
Darien, GA
Christ's Chapel in Memory Park is a roughly 190-square-foot roadside sanctuary built in 1949 as a quiet place for travelers. After a 2015 arson fire destroyed the original, the tiny church was rebuilt and continues to welcome visitors along U.S. 17.
Cherry Valley, NY
This giant concrete-and-steel tepee has stood beside U.S. Route 20 since the 1950s as a surviving piece of classic American roadside architecture. It still operates as a gift shop and overlook, so visitors can stop rather than simply photograph it while driving past.
Dragoon, AZ
Billboards across Interstate 10 build suspense for miles before travelers reach this classic mystery attraction and its deliberately strange museum displays. The current version mixes roadside spectacle, aliens, dinosaurs and a heavily theatrical answer to the question on the signs.
Midland, MI
Built in 1981, the Tridge is a three-way pedestrian bridge centered at the meeting of the Chippewa and Tittabawassee rivers. Three wooden spans radiate from one central support, allowing travelers to cross between three separate riverbanks from a single junction.
Taylor, NE
Life-size painted figures are positioned around Taylor in scenes depicting residents, workers and everyday town life. The growing outdoor art project turns streets, lots and buildings into an eerie open-air population of wooden or metal “villagers.”
Cynthiana, KY
Cynthiana native Tony Moore co-created The Walking Dead comic, giving the small Kentucky town a direct connection to the franchise. Portuguese artist Sergio Odeith painted an enormous 3D-style undead mural beside Rohs Opera House in 2016, turning downtown into a destination for comic and horror fans.
Castle Dale, UT
An overlook on the San Rafael Swell reveals the San Rafael River winding through a deep canyon system often nicknamed Utah's Little Grand Canyon. Public BLM roads reach the rim.
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh's long-running oddities shop sells and displays taxidermy, bones, funeral objects, anatomical pieces, strange artwork and other macabre curiosities. It operates as a normal storefront on East Warrington Avenue during posted weekly hours, so visitors can browse without an appointment.
Barre, VT
This 1924 war memorial includes a curved granite bench with an acoustic trick: a whisper at one end can be heard clearly at the other. The effect makes the solemn monument double as one of Barre's strangest interactive landmarks.
Cohasset, MA
Several locations around Cohasset stood in for the fictional New England town in the 1987 supernatural comedy 'The Witches of Eastwick.' The compact town center makes it possible to connect real streets and buildings with the film's witchy setting.
Mitchell, SD
Mitchell's landmark building is redecorated with enormous exterior murals made from corn, grain and other plant material. The designs change regularly, turning a civic arena into one of the country's strangest pieces of agricultural architecture.
Hardeeville, SC
Two enormous fiberglass elephants known as Thelma and Louise have long served as roadside mascots for Crazy Joe’s fireworks businesses. The pair have moved over the years; this pin reflects their current Hardeeville-area home rather than an older location still repeated by some travel listings.
Washington, DC
A wooded island in the Potomac hides monumental stone tablets and a large Roosevelt statue at the center of an intentionally wild memorial landscape.
Nashville, TN
Jack White's Nashville complex combines a record shop, performance space, studio and novelty-minded vinyl culture under one roof. Its unusual releases, machines and obsession with physical recording formats make it more than a conventional music store.
Montclair, NJ
Thomas Edison experimented with a system for pouring entire houses from concrete as an inexpensive, durable form of mass housing. Several examples survive in Montclair, but they are private residences and should be appreciated only from public streets.
Edison, NJ
A 131-foot Art Deco tower topped by an enormous light bulb marks the site of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory. The nearby museum interprets the experiments conducted here, including work that helped develop recorded sound and practical electric lighting.
Hendersonville, NC
A marble angel in Oakdale Cemetery became famous because of its association with Thomas Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel. The sculpture was carved in Italy and sold by Wolfe’s father, whose monument shop inspired major elements of the novel.
Bryce Canyon, UT
A tall hoodoo capped by a broader block resembles an enormous stone hammer rising from Bryce Canyon's amphitheater. It is visible from the Navajo Loop area.
Yachats, OR
This collapsed coastal sea cave appears to swallow and eject ocean water as waves move through it; the spectacle is best viewed from a safe distance around higher tide.
