12 KiB
12 KiB
| 1 | title | content | lat | lng |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | The Center of the Universe | An acoustic anomaly in Tulsa where you can shout and only you hear the echo. | 36.1553 | -95.9931 |
| 3 | The World's Tallest Thermometer | A 134-foot tall reminder that Baker, California, is basically the surface of the sun. | 35.2661 | -116.0725 |
| 4 | Carhenge | A faithful replica of Stonehenge made entirely of vintage American automobiles. | 42.1422 | -102.8581 |
| 5 | The Fremont Troll | A massive stone troll living under a bridge that is currently eating a real VW Beetle. | 47.651 | -122.3473 |
| 6 | The Leaning Tower of Niles | A half-size replica of the Tower of Pisa that was built to hide a water tank. | 42.0233 | -87.7964 |
| 7 | Unclaimed Baggage Center | The only place on Earth where you can buy someone else's lost vacation dreams. | 34.8697 | -86.0028 |
| 8 | The Maine Ridge Runner | A tribute to the man who lived in the woods and stole only library books. | 44.5497 | -69.7797 |
| 9 | Cadillac Ranch Graffiti | A public note to the world where everyone is encouraged to bring spray paint. | 35.1872 | -101.987 |
| 10 | The Muffler Man | A giant fiberglass Paul Bunyan who lost his axe and now just looks confused. | 35.5122 | -98.9819 |
| 11 | World's Largest Ball of Twine | Built by one man who just didn't know when to stop winding. | 39.4842 | -97.6475 |
| 12 | The Mushroom Houses | Architectural notes in stone that look like they were designed by a Smurf. | 45.3167 | -85.2583 |
| 13 | Berkeley's Fish House | A house shaped like a giant fish because why live in a square box? | 40.015 | -105.2705 |
| 14 | The Prada Marfa | A permanent "store" in the middle of the desert that will never actually open. | 30.6035 | -104.5185 |
| 15 | The Beer Can House | A retirement project involving 50,000 flattened cans and a lot of patience. | 29.7711 | -95.4294 |
| 16 | The Republic of Molossia | A sovereign "micronation" in Nevada that is currently at war with East Germany. | 39.3233 | -119.5397 |
| 17 | The Oregon Vortex | A "forbidden" patch of land where brooms stand up and people look shorter. | 42.4936 | -123.0844 |
| 18 | Dinosaur Park | A collection of green concrete monsters that haven't aged a day since 1936. | 44.0761 | -103.2436 |
| 19 | The Paper House | A home built out of 100,000 newspapers that has survived since 1922. | 42.6681 | -70.6289 |
| 20 | The Jolly Green Giant | A 55-foot tall statue that makes every visitor feel like a side dish of peas. | 43.6483 | -94.1039 |
| 21 | World's Largest Chest of Drawers | A 38-foot tall dresser that serves as a literal "note" on the local furniture industry. | 35.975 | -80.0069 |
| 22 | Lucy the Elephant | A six-story high wooden elephant that used to be a real estate office. | 39.3225 | -74.4533 |
| 23 | Desert Christ Park | A hillside covered in giant statues waiting for a movie that never started. | 34.1197 | -116.4447 |
| 24 | The Gum Wall | A colorful, sticky, and slightly gross public mosaic of chewed-up history. | 47.6083 | -122.34 |
| 25 | Ave Maria Grotto | A tiny world of 125 miniature stone shrines built by a hunchbacked monk. | 34.1758 | -86.8294 |
| 26 | Hole N" The Rock | A 5,000-square-foot home blasted into a solid cliff face by one very determined man. | 38.39 | -109.455 |
| 27 | The Spite House | A very narrow home built specifically to block a neighbor's view of the street. | 42.3781 | -71.1167 |
| 28 | Coral Castle | A monument built by a 100-pound man using "the secrets of the pyramids." | 25.5006 | -80.4442 |
| 29 | The Haines Shoe House | A literal giant shoe that you can actually sleep in. | 39.9928 | -76.6347 |
| 30 | The Toilet Seat Art Museum | A collection of over 1,000 lids proving that anything can be a canvas. | 35.2014 | -101.8317 |
| 31 | Enchanted Highway | A stretch of road featuring a 110-foot tall family made of scrap metal. | 46.4719 | -102.5589 |
| 32 | The Peachoid | A water tower that looks suspiciously like a giant bottom from the highway. | 35.0808 | -81.6739 |
| 33 | The Big Duck | A poultry-shaped building designed specifically to sell duck eggs. | 40.8233 | -72.7153 |
| 34 | The Hat Museum | A tribute to the days when nobody left the house without a topper. | 45.5122 | -122.6758 |
| 35 | Jimmy Carter's Peanut | A giant smiling peanut statue that bears an uncanny resemblance to the president. | 32.0436 | -84.3917 |
| 36 | The UFO Watchtower | A platform in the desert where people wait for a ride to the stars. | 37.935 | -105.8753 |
| 37 | The Longaberger Basket | A seven-story office building that looks exactly like a picnic basket. | 40.0636 | -82.3458 |
| 38 | Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park | A field of massive, colorful kinetic sculptures made from farm parts. | 35.7311 | -77.9125 |
| 39 | The Bone Museum | An Oklahoma City gem where the skeletons literally tell the story. | 35.3942 | -97.4933 |
| 40 | The Wigwam Village No. 2 | A 1930s hotel where you can tell people you "slept in a teepee." | 37.1472 | -85.9189 |
| 41 | The Blue Hole | A natural artesian spring in the desert that stays 62 degrees all year. | 34.9439 | -104.6736 |
| 42 | Salem Witch Trials Memorial | A somber note in stone to those who were "not actually witches." | 42.5211 | -70.8911 |
| 43 | The Evolution of the O | A statue at OU that students touch for luck before finals. | 35.2089 | -97.4456 |
| 44 | Old North Tower | A historic building on UCO's campus that is a landmark for every Edmond local. | 35.6558 | -97.4725 |
| 45 | World's Smallest Police Station | A repurposed phone booth that was used by the local force until 1990. | 29.8136 | -84.6589 |
| 46 | The Egg City | A tribute to the once-thriving poultry industry that now looks like an alien base. | 34.2814 | -118.8833 |
| 47 | Sleepy Hollow Headless Horseman | A bridge where people still look over their shoulders for a pumpkin-headed rider. | 41.0903 | -73.8617 |
| 48 | The International UFO Museum | The only place where "I saw a weather balloon" is an insult. | 33.3944 | -104.5231 |
| 49 | Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum | A chaotic collection of vintage coin-op machines and weird neon signs. | 42.5286 | -83.3528 |
| 50 | The Winchester House Mystery | A home with stairs that lead nowhere and doors that open to drops. | 37.3184 | -121.9367 |
| 51 | The Neon Museum | The "Boneyard" where retired Las Vegas signs go to spend their golden years. | 36.1769 | -115.1356 |
| 52 | Lucy the Elephant | A six-story elephant built in 1881 to sell real estate and survived several hurricanes. | 39.3233 | -74.4533 |
| 53 | Prada Marfa | A permanently closed luxury boutique in the middle of the Texas desert that is actually an art installation. | 30.6035 | -104.5185 |
| 54 | The Corn Palace | A multipurpose arena decorated annually with murals made entirely of corn and other grains. | 43.7142 | -98.0253 |
| 55 | Wall Drug Store | A massive tourist stop that started by offering free ice water and now takes up an entire city block. | 43.9928 | -102.2414 |
| 56 | The Thing? | A roadside mystery in Arizona that you have to pay a few dollars to see, hidden in a series of sheds. | 32.0942 | -110.3019 |
| 57 | Salvation Mountain | A massive colorful art installation made of adobe and straw, covered in thousands of gallons of paint. | 33.2538 | -115.4731 |
| 58 | Seven Magic Mountains | A desert art installation featuring seven towers of colorful, stacked boulders. | 35.8383 | -115.2708 |
| 59 | Musical Highway | A stretch of Route 66 that plays 'America the Beautiful' if you drive exactly 45 mph. | 35.0744 | -106.4322 |
| 60 | Carving of Crazy Horse | A mountain monument under construction since 1948 that will eventually be the world's largest sculpture. | 43.8367 | -103.6244 |
| 61 | Bottle Tree Ranch | A forest of 'trees' made from glass bottles and scrap metal along old Route 66. | 34.6908 | -117.3374 |
| 62 | Wigwam Motel | A classic motel where you sleep in individual concrete teepees. | 34.9022 | -110.1581 |
| 63 | London Bridge | The actual bridge from London, dismantled and moved to the Arizona desert in 1968. | 34.4717 | -114.3472 |
| 64 | Meteor Crater | The best-preserved meteorite impact site on Earth, nearly one mile across. | 35.0272 | -111.0225 |
| 65 | Bishop Castle | A massive stone castle built by one man over 60 years using local rocks. | 38.0614 | -105.0942 |
| 66 | The Stanley Hotel | The inspiration for Stephen King's 'The Shining' and a hotspot for ghost hunters. | 40.3833 | -105.5189 |
| 67 | Meow Wolf Santa Fe | An immersive art experience that starts in a Victorian house and leads to psychedelic dimensions. | 35.6548 | -105.9967 |
| 68 | Cadillac Ranch | Ten Cadillacs buried nose-first in the ground, inviting visitors to leave their mark with spray paint. | 35.1872 | -101.987 |
| 69 | Hole N' The Rock | A 5,000 square foot home carved directly into a massive sandstone rock. | 38.3912 | -109.4567 |
| 70 | Enchanted Highway | A collection of the world's largest scrap metal sculptures along a 32-mile stretch of road. | 46.4674 | -102.5583 |
| 71 | Cabazon Dinosaurs | Giant roadside dinosaurs featured in the movie 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure'. | 33.92 | -116.7725 |
| 72 | Winslow Corner | A park dedicated to the Eagles' song 'Take It Easy', complete with a flatbed Ford. | 35.0242 | -110.6975 |
| 73 | Hoover Dam | A massive concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. | 36.0162 | -114.7372 |
| 74 | Four Corners Monument | The only place in the US where you can stand in four states at the same time. | 36.9991 | -109.0452 |
| 75 | Shiprock | A towering volcanic rock formation that rises 1,500 feet above the desert floor. | 36.6872 | -108.8364 |
| 76 | Very Large Array | A massive radio astronomy observatory consisting of 27 giant dish antennas. | 34.079 | -107.6184 |
| 77 | Rio Grande Gorge Bridge | The tenth highest bridge in the United States, offering dizzying views of the river below. | 36.4764 | -105.733 |
| 78 | Garden of the Gods | A park of towering red sandstone rock formations against a backdrop of Pikes Peak. | 38.8785 | -104.8806 |
| 79 | Royal Gorge Bridge | One of the world's highest suspension bridges, hanging 955 feet above the Arkansas River. | 38.4614 | -105.3253 |
| 80 | Casa Bonita | A legendary pink Mexican restaurant with indoor waterfalls, cliff divers, and puppet shows. | 39.7419 | -105.0708 |
| 81 | Coral Castle | An oolite limestone structure built by one man who claimed to know the secrets of the pyramids. | 25.5003 | -80.4442 |
| 82 | Ames Pyramid | A 60-foot tall granite pyramid built to honor the brothers who financed the Union Pacific Railroad. | 41.1314 | -105.3975 |
| 83 | Market Theater Gum Wall | A brick wall covered entirely in used chewing gum, considered a local landmark. | 47.6084 | -122.3404 |
| 84 | The Big Basket | A seven-story office building shaped exactly like a Longaberger picnic basket. | 40.0633 | -82.3464 |
| 85 | Carhenge | A replica of England's Stonehenge formed from vintage American automobiles. | 42.1422 | -102.8581 |
| 86 | Winchester Mystery House | A massive Victorian mansion built continuously for 38 years to appease spirits. | 37.3184 | -121.9511 |
| 87 | Dinosaur Park | A hilltop park featuring seven giant concrete dinosaur sculptures built during the Great Depression. | 44.0789 | -103.2458 |
| 88 | International UFO Museum | A museum dedicated to the 1947 Roswell UFO incident and all things extraterrestrial. | 33.3944 | -104.523 |
| 89 | Gatorland | The 'Alligator Capital of the World', featuring thousands of gators and crocodiles. | 28.3556 | -81.3364 |
| 90 | The Blue Hole | A sapphire-blue artesian spring in the middle of the New Mexico desert. | 34.9439 | -104.6736 |
| 91 | Dinosaur Kingdom II | A bizarre theme park where Union soldiers fight dinosaurs in the Civil War. | 37.6631 | -79.4883 |
| 92 | Desert of Maine | A 40-acre patch of glacial silt that looks exactly like a desert in the middle of a forest. | 43.8586 | -70.1283 |
| 93 | World's Largest Chest of Drawers | An 80-foot tall building shaped like a dresser, complete with giant socks hanging out. | 35.9681 | -80.0101 |
| 94 | Ava Maria Grotto | A park containing 125 miniature replicas of famous religious structures from around the world. | 34.1764 | -86.8331 |
| 95 | The Unclaimed Baggage Center | The only store in the world that buys and sells lost luggage from airlines. | 34.8697 | -86.0028 |
| 96 | Voodoo Doughnut | A quirky doughnut shop known for its eccentric decor and unconventional toppings. | 45.5227 | -122.6731 |
| 97 | The Heidelberg Project | An open-air art environment in Detroit that transformed a neighborhood into a massive gallery. | 42.3584 | -83.0214 |
| 98 | Wall Drug | The legendary drug store that grew from free ice water into a world-famous attraction. | 43.9928 | -102.2414 |
| 99 | The Salt Palace | A salt-covered building in Utah where you can literally lick the walls. | 40.7667 | -111.895 |
| 100 | Paper House | A house built entirely out of newspapers by a mechanical engineer in 1922. | 42.6622 | -70.6289 |
| 101 | Dog Bark Park Inn | A bed and breakfast shaped like a giant beagle, where guests sleep inside the dog. | 46.0583 | -116.4447 |