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Windmill-Shaped Hot Dog Stand, Long Branch, NJ

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:24:02 -0500

Feature: Hot dogs are holy food along the Jersey shore, and the WindMill offers a unique pop architectural landmark to go with its cheese- and chili-lathered wieners. ...

World's Largest Clothespin, Philadelphia, PA

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:23:20 -0500

Feature: Claes Oldenburg sculpted the 45-ft. ...

Board Game Art Park, Philadelphia, PA

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:23:02 -0500

Feature: Sculpted game pieces from board game classics are strewn about a gridded plaza. ...

Movie Manor Motor Inn, Monte Vista, CO

Sun, 13 May 2012 17:13:43 -0500

Feature: Open the curtains. ...

Castle at the End of the Enchanted Highway

Sat, 12 May 2012 12:23:27 -0500

For the past two decades, Gary Greff has been building the world's largest metal sculptures along The Enchanted Highway, trying to lure travelers off the interstate to his hometown.

Buddy Christ Statue, Kevin Smith Shrines, Red Bank, NJ

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:36:05 -0500

Feature: Created for the Kevin Smith movie "Dogma," this less-than-life-size grinning Messiah blesses Smith's comic book store. ...

Mammoth Cave Wax Museum Auction – May 19

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:13:46 -0500

Our favorite wax museums always seem to live on borrowed time. The characters and scenes haven't changed for decades, awkwardly frozen in a bygone era.

Hey, Loser! White House Also-Rans Yearn For Limelight

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:21:15 -0500

If you're a fan of DC Multiverse, the novels of Harry Turtledove, or of Captain Kirk going back in time to fix the future, then you know how messy Alternate History can be.

America Unhenged

Mon, 07 May 2012 07:08:56 -0500

Feature: Faithful replicas, improved designs and artistic tributes to England's megalith rock circle of old have cropped up across the USA. ...

Nut Title Regained by Texas – It Took 30 Years

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:31:39 -0500

1982 was a rough year for Seguin, Texas -- the year that it lost bragging rights as the Home of the World's Largest Pecan.

Borax Visitor Center, Boron, CA

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:47:36 -0500

Feature: Don't miss the view of Borax's huge open-pit mining operation, the museum about the many uses of borax, and get a free souvenir piece of ore! ...

Thomas Jefferson, College Loan Deadbeat, Williamsburg, VA

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:08:58 -0500

Feature: Bronze statue was a gift from the college Thomas Jefferson founded (UVA) to the college he attended (William and Mary). ...

Heart Attack Grill, Las Vegas, NV

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:23:37 -0500

Feature: Scantily clad, unregistered nurses dish out coronary cloggers to patients in hospital gowns, and help the most satisfied diners exit in a wheelchair. ...

Inside the Temple of Tolerance House

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:51:53 -0500

If you're visiting the Temple of Tolerance in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and temple master Jim Bowsher is around, ask politely if you can go inside his house.

The Casket of Howard Finster

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:05:53 -0500

"Sometimes kids are creeped out by the casket," said Jordan Poole, executive director of the Paradise Garden Foundation. Jordan was showing us around Paradise Gardens, an enclave built in the 1970s by folk artist Howard Finster.

The World’s Most Mysterious Motorcycle

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:48:37 -0500

Our favorite exhibit at Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, is the Traub, a one-of-a-kind motorcycle that may have dropped in from another dimension.

Avenge Ellwood! The Day The Japanese Attacked California

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:21:55 -0500

During World War II, the Japanese really wanted to threaten the US mainland, thousands of miles from the fracas in Japan's conquered territories.

Meeting Every Dead President – or at Least, Standing on Them

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:50:08 -0500

Kurt Alexander Deion is 17 years old -- and he expects to visit his 38th (and final) U.S. President grave next month. Although we can't say for sure, he may be the youngest person in history to accomplish this.

Finally, A Museum With Glowing Fish And Sea Monkeys

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:04:44 -0600

Why has art professor Richard Pell opened a museum of plants and animals genetically altered by human beings? "If somebody else had done it first," he said, "I wouldn't have had to."