Atlas Obscura Lists

From Wild West waystations to tiki bars, even the state’s smaller restaurants have big personalities.

Including The Martin Hotel, Historic Silver Café, Economy Drug & Old Fashioned Soda Fountain, and Middlegate Station

From castles that inspired famous words to walls lined with sonnets and forests littered with haikus.

Including Poetry Postbox, Robert Frost Interpretive Trail, Wall Poems of Charlotte, and Edinburgh Book Sculptures

See how these places are subtle, not screaming out for attention? Very demure. Very mindful.

Including Hidden Beach, The Wacky Taxidermy & Miniatures Museum, Hulk of the SS Good News, and Carriolu Miniature Village

Feast on freshly blow-torched tuna in Osaka or half-century-old soup in Bangkok.

Including Wat Thai Temple Food Market, Nishiki Market, Burgermeister, and Hai Som Tam Convent

This most majestic of summer fruits is all around us.

Including China Watermelon Museum, Hotel Unique, Watermelon Rock, and Luling Watermelon Water Tower

From roads that lead nowhere to incomplete castles, these places are all the more alluring in their imperfection.

Including Post Mortem Chapel, The Road to Nowhere, Incompiuta di Venosa, and Igloo City

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