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Florida long has been singled out for the unusual. But don’t just take our word for it: Two outfits that celebrate the offbeat, Atlas Obscura and Roadside America, both love the state, home to ...
Built in 1924, The Bottle, also known as the Nehi Inn, was one of the first "world's largest" roadside attractions. Despite the attraction itself being destroyed by fire in 1933, the community of The Bottle, Alabama still bears the name of its famous attraction.
Spook Hill. Spook Hill is a gravity hill, an optical illusion in Lake Wales, Florida, where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill. Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand and limestone hills, which were islands from two to three million years ago, when sea levels were much higher than at present.
Braum's Milk Bottle Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) The wedge-shaped red brick building was built in 1930, right off of iconic Route 66. In 1948, the milk bottle was added. Interestingly, the ...
A roadside attraction is a feature along the side of a road meant to attract tourists. In general, these are places one might stop on the way to somewhere, rather than being a destination. They are frequently advertised with billboards. The modern tourist-oriented highway attraction originated as a U.S. and Canadian phenomenon in the 1940s to ...
Jungle Island, formerly Parrot Jungle, is a relaunched eco-adventure park on Watson Island, Miami, Florida, United States. [1] The park is re-opened following a series of major renovations after the park incurred damage from Hurricane Irma. [2] The park features new pop-up waterslides, an outdoor wind tunnel flight experience, zip lines, escape ...
Iowa To break up a cross-country road trip, retrace the path of Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones to the Field of Dreams (yes, that one), a free attraction in Dyersville. School groups sometimes ...
Coral Castle. Coral Castle is an oolite limestone structure created by the Latvian-American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951). It is located in unincorporated territory of Miami-Dade County, Florida, between the cities of Homestead and Leisure City. The structure comprises numerous large stones, each weighing several tons, sculpted ...