Crooked Forest (Gryfino, Poland)
Planted sometime around 1930, the grove of approximately 400 twisted pine trees known as the Crooked Forest is located near Gryfino, Poland. Each of the pine trees in the Crooked Forest bend just above ground …
Oddities
The Tsar Cannon (Moscow, Russia)
The Tsar Cannon is a large artillery piece on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow. A monument to the art of Russian artillery casting, the giant bronze was produced by Andrey Chokhov, a master craftsman in 1586. It …
Giant Gavel (Columbus, Ohio)
The largest judicial gavel in the world is in the form of a stainless steel sculpture located in a reflecting pool just outside the Ohio Supreme Court in beautiful downtown Columbus, Ohio. Officially known as …
Salvation Mountain (Slab City, California)
Salvation Mountain is an adobe and straw art installation created by Leonard Knight (1931-2014) in the California Desert north of Calipatria near Slab City. With its brightly painted bible verses it may seem that it only interests the religious, …
Rory Gallagher Corner (Dublin, Ireland)
Rory Gallagher Corner is a monument dedicated to the famous Irish blues musician, songwriter, and producer. In honor of his life’s work and the impact he had on the country, the monument at Meeting House …
The Ziggurat (Sacramento, California)
Sacramento, California may seem like an odd place to find a stepped pyramid, and it is. This is part of the reason the Ziggurat building stands out against its otherwise unspectacular surroundings as one of …
Smallest Post Office in the U.S. (Ochopee, Florida)
The Ochopee Post Office in Ochopee, Florida is the smallest post office in the United States. The little post office that could was once just a humble storage shed on U.S. Route 41. Prior to its life in the service of …
Sandpoint Statue of Liberty (Sandpoint, Idaho)
Small Statues of Liberty are fairly common in the United States (and around the world), but Sandpoint, Idaho has given their Lady Liberty an especially scenic backdrop by standing her at the end of a …
The Milk Bottle Grocery (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
The Milk Bottle Grocery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was a small grocery store on an oddly shaped corner with a giant metal Braum’s milk bottle on its roof. The store was built in 1930, and …
The Big Nickel (Sudbury, Ontario)
Located at the Dynamic Earth Science Museum in Sudbury, Ontario, is a nine meter (30 ft) tall Canadian nickel. The idea for the distinctly Canadian roadside attraction and tourist destination known as The Big Nickel …