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An interactive map featuring more than 100 quirky attractions around the world. Check out offbeat museums, roadside attractions, and fun places!
Jun 12, 2018 · As a road trip travel blogger I have seen some fascinating roadside attractions. This is a list of the best roadside attractions from around the world.
- World's Largest Kokopelli. This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.
- The World's Largest Penny. In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.
- Apple Boy. This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.
- Podcast: Robert Is Here. How a humble Florida roadside stand became a tropical fruit destination. The Podcast Team February 12, 2024.
Apr 5, 2024 · The Big Poo gets moved around a bit to make appearances on beaches. Oz has some wonderful names for its communities; how about Useless Loop, Wee Waa, or Dead Cat Gully? Then, there's Humpty Doo in Northern Territory, where a boxing crocodile stands tall (all 26 feet of it) and proud.
- Lucy The Elephant, Margate City, New Jersey
- Musical Highway, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Desert of Maine, Freeport, Maine
- World’S Largest Collection of The World’S Largest Objects, Casey, Illinois
- Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas
- The Museum of Everyday Life, Glover, Vermont
- Fossil Cabin, Carbon County, Wyoming
- The Glass Outhouse Art Gallery, Twentynine Palms, California
The Jersey Shore has long been a summertime destination for residents of the Tri-State Area looking to catch some rays after a long winter. While the shoreline may be forever changed due to the wrath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, one constant has been Lucy the Elephant. Originally part of what was known as the “Elephant Bazaar,” the 65-foot-tall, 60-...
A road trip isn’t complete without a solid playlist, but what if instead of relying on Spotify or the radio, the roadway serenaded drivers? That’s exactly what happens along a quarter-mile stretch of Route 66 heading eastbound out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Located between mile markers four and five, the roadway plays “America the Beautiful” whene...
Finding an expanse of desert in coastal Maine may seem inconceivable. But, believe it or not, tucked away in Freeport, a former shipbuilding town located along Casco Bay, sits the Desert of Maine, a 40-acre stretch of glacial sand dunes that formed more than 10,000 years ago. Known as Maine’s “most famous natural phenomenon,” the dunes formedduring...
Some towns can lay claim to being home of a single superlative attraction, such as Cawker City, Kansas, home of the world’s biggest ball of twine, and Baker, California, the proud owner of the world’s largest thermometer. However, only one locale can take ownership of having the world’s largest collection of the world’s largest objects: Casey, Illi...
Situated only a few miles west of Amarillo, Texas, sits one of the most iconic roadside attractions in America. Known as Cadillac Ranch, the public art installation comprised of ten partially buried Cadillac automobiles has been gaining rust and layers of spray paint since its debut in 1974 as an avant-garde art installation by San Francisco-based ...
“One man’s trash, is another man’s treasure.” That old proverb rings particularly true at The Museum of Everyday Life. Housed inside a rickety old barn in northern Vermont, the museum is the invention of Clare Dolan, a local nurse and puppeteer who created this museum dedicated to the mundane in 2011 after cleaning out her barn and realizing that s...
Although it was built less than 100 years ago as a roadside attraction, the Fossil Cabin has been dubbed “The World’s Oldest Building,” and for good reason. The circa 1932 cabin located five miles west of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, along Lincoln Highway, is comprised of nearly 5,800 fossilized dinosaur bones and is the creation of Thomas Boylan, a loca...
The Glass Outhouse Art Gallery is truly off the beaten path. Sandwiched between Joshua Tree National Park and Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness Area along California State Route 62, the gallery is home to an array of indoor and outdoor art installations, many of which might make you scratch your head. Case in point: the main attraction is a glass outhouse ...
Jan 5, 2024 · 1. The Cabazon Dinosaurs, California. The Cabazon Dinosaurs have long been regarded as one of the most iconic roadside attractions.Photo credit: TonelsonProductions / Shutterstock. These film-famous dinosaurs are one of California’s best roadside oddities.
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Jul 24, 2020 · From drab landscapes out West to big crowds at Stonehenge, these photos show the disappointing reality of roadside attractions in the US and abroad.
