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Even a Druid would feel at home with no complaints at this stoic Stonehenge replica, set on a tufted hillside in the Shenandoah Valley. Baffling perhaps, but the towering industrial foam blocks make for a mystical roadside diversion.
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America's most famous mythical lumberjack, capable of felling entire forests with his powerful ax, has a long reach. There are monumental statues of Bunyan in Akeley, Minnesota; Bangor, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. His trusty sidekick, Babe the Blue Ox, gets in on the action with colossal statues in Klamath, California, and Bemidji, Minnesota (pictured above).
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This towering donut, built in 1952, has earned celeb status by appearing in films (Mars Attacks!), videos (Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.”), and Hollywood dreams of sweet treats.
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America’s oldest example of zoomorphic architecture, this 130-year-old, 65-foot pachyderm is actually a building that once served as a summer cottage. Lumber up the spiral stairs to Lucy’s towering howdah for elephantine views of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Walk through a modern cave home with 14 furnished rooms carved out of Utah sandstone. If the excavation, which removed 50,000 cubic feet of stone, doesn’t move you, take in the petting zoo.
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Seven sensational scrap metal sculptures line this 32-mile stretch of highway in southwest North Dakota, including artist Gary Greff’s massive “Geese in Flight,” listed in the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest scrap metal sculpture.
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Circling a patch of lonesome prairie, 38 old cars painted gray form a replica of England’s Stonehenge. Additional sculptures made from Detroit iron include “Ford Seasons,” representing seasonal changes to the landscape.
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Climb to the top of a life-size Tyrannosaurus rex for an up-close view of its teeth at this real-world Jurassic park. Purchase souvenirs at a museum shop located inside Ms. Dinny, a 150-ton Apatosaurus considered the largest concrete dino in the world.
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Existing rules to prevent bill shock for those using the internet via a mobile phone while abroad remain: operators must apply an automatic €50 (£45) cut-off limit on accounts unless the customer explicitly agrees otherwise.
Monique Goyens, director general of the European Consumers' Organisation, said: "These new caps are slowly chipping away at the extortionate roaming prices some telecoms operators have been driving for years. These high prices need to be brought down so European phone owners' confidence can rise.
"A remarkable 72% of travellers still limit their roaming calls because of high charges. Such pricing is a denial of the very idea of the EU single market and free movement. It's logical legislation."
Nick Wright of billmonitor said: "While any reduction in extortionate roaming prices are of course welcome, the latest price cuts will leave few regular roaming customers rushing to make calls while on their summer holiday.
"The 10% cut in outbound roaming call prices will certainly help, but as the 40% of us who make roaming calls well know, it will be a drop in the ocean relative to already very high costs."
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The European commission has ordered mobile telecommunictions companies to cap the cost of making and receiving calls while abroad.
From today customers should pay no more than 32p a minute for calls made – a 3p reduction – and 10p a minute for calls received while within the EU.
However there are fears that firms are passing on the EU costs to UK consumers in the form of domestic price rises, with Orange and Vodafone introducing increases of up to 66% in pay as you go costs for calls and text.
The move is part of the commission's goal to narrow the gap between domestic and overseas call rates to virtually nothing by 2015. New regulation on data pricing and competition practices is to be announced on Tuesday 5 July.
Compulsory maximum roaming rates were first imposed on mobile network operators four years ago to tackle what the commission called the "roaming rip-off" – network operators were said to be making profits of more than 200% for mobile calls made while in another EU country, and 300% or 400% for calls received.
Today's additional price drop means mobile roaming charges are about 75% cheaper on average than they were six years ago when the commission first urged operators to cut their rates voluntarily.
