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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Cambridge, MA
Dozens of bronze gloves are scattered through Porter Square station as if lost by generations of commuters. The installation turns one of the most commonly misplaced winter objects in New England into a permanent underground art cycle.
South Burlington, VT
Two enormous black-granite whale tails appear to dive into a grassy field beside Interstate 89. Jim Sardonis created the sculpture in 1989, and its marine subject has become particularly memorable in landlocked Vermont.
Portland, ME
An eight-foot steel pine cone stands in Deering Oaks Park, but its overlapping scales are actually made from roughly 140 recycled shovel heads. The transformation is obvious only when viewed closely, making the sculpture a good quick OddWay reveal.
Columbia, SC
A huge metal robot head rises beside Harden Street in Five Points, staring out over passing cars without a body attached. The deliberately oversized face looks like the remains of a buried machine or a prop from a forgotten science-fiction movie.
Cozad, NE
This marker commemorates the line of 100 degrees west longitude, a geographic division that became culturally associated with the transition toward the drier Great Plains. Cozad itself was named for the meridian, turning an invisible coordinate into a routeable roadside history stop.
Boston, MA
An enormous bright-yellow pear stands outside a Dorchester property on Columbia Road. The oversized fruit is a classic giant-object roadside attraction: simple, unexplained at a glance, and almost impossible to miss once you know where to look.
Mystic, CT
Hundreds of forks, knives and spoons were welded into an 18-foot upright striped bass outside S&P Oyster Restaurant. The fish was created in 2022 using utensils supplied by the restaurant itself.
Aiken, SC
A decorative archway in downtown Aiken survives from a tiny police station built as a New Deal-era project in 1938. The station itself is gone, but the entrance structure remains tucked into the pedestrian lanes around The Alley like a doorway to a vanished building.
Warwick, RI
A 60-foot parabolic arch from the 1964–65 New York World's Fair now stands inside Rocky Point State Park. It was one of 11 General Foods "Archways to Understanding" that originally carried electronic information displays for fairgoers. After relocation to Rocky Point it became a familiar meeting landmark and survived the amusement park itself.
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
A giant purple California Raisin figure towers outside a roadside property on Zion Road, preserving one of the strangest physical remnants of the once-ubiquitous advertising characters. The oversized fiberglass figure is best viewed from the public roadside.
Searsport, ME
A dead roadside tree outside the Yardarm Motel was transformed in 2025 into an approximately 20-foot carving of Poseidon by artist Josh Landry. The sea god rises from the trunk holding a trident, creating a particularly fitting giant figure along Maine’s coast.
Apache, OK
A brick teepee on church grounds is kept open around the clock as a place for prayer and reflection. The permanent masonry form is an unusual reinterpretation of a Plains symbol within a Christian devotional setting.
Hockessin, DE
A monumental statue of the Hindu deity Hanuman rises over the grounds of the Hindu Temple of Delaware. The roughly 25-foot figure is an unexpected landmark in northern Delaware and is visible as part of the active temple complex.
Fort Wayne, IN
A 27-foot seated blue Hindu deity statue rises from the rural grounds of Omkaar Temple west of Fort Wayne, creating an unexpectedly monumental sight among surrounding farm fields. The scale and setting—not the religion itself—make this an OddWay stop; visitors should respect the temple as an active place of worship and follow posted access rules.
Louisville, KY
A towering gold-painted reproduction inspired by Michelangelo's David stands outside the 21c Museum Hotel on Main Street. The roughly 30-foot sculpture is intentionally oversized and impossible to miss among Louisville's downtown buildings.
New Castle, DE
A towering stainless-steel statue of Mary rises beside Holy Spirit Catholic Church near the Delaware Memorial Bridge. At roughly 34 feet tall, the polished figure is one of the state's most conspicuous religious roadside landmarks.
Poniatowski, WI
Near Poniatowski, the 45th parallel north meets the 90th meridian west—halfway between the Equator and North Pole and one-quarter of the way around the globe from Greenwich. A marker and small park turn an otherwise invisible grid intersection into a physical destination.
Carthage, MO
Opened in 1949 and restored in the 1990s, the 66 Drive-In preserves its original neon sign, screen and classic Route 66 setting. The theater operates seasonally, so travelers should check the current movie schedule rather than assuming a screening is available every night.
San Francisco, CA
A functioning storefront for imaginary pirates sells eye patches, rope and absurd seafaring supplies while serving as the public entrance to a nonprofit writing center.
Nashville, TN
A large historic water reservoir sits unexpectedly close to central Nashville, enclosed by infrastructure and fencing rather than designed as a tourist attraction. View only from lawful public areas and do not cross gates or barriers.
New Harmony, IN
Behind New Harmony's Atheneum stands a marker for the Kcymaerxthaere project, a worldwide network of plaques and installations describing an invented parallel geography. This piece, titled "A Healing Palindrome," deliberately blurs public art, fictional history and real-world place.
Seattle, WA
Wind moving through tall steel towers creates changing tones at this outdoor sound sculpture on the NOAA campus. Visitors must follow current federal-campus check-in and access procedures.
Hartford, CT
Museum director A. Everett 'Chick' Austin designed this 1930s home to resemble a grand European villa, but much of the impressive facade conceals a house only one room deep. The theatrical architecture fits its famously eccentric former owner; interior access is by scheduled museum programming.
Abita Springs, LA
A classic roadside attraction packed with homemade inventions, taxidermy, arcade machines, folk art and deliberately fake creatures. Its best-known exhibits blur museum display and prank in exactly the way OddWay is built for.
