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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Collinsville, IL
Collinsville’s 170-foot Brooks catsup-bottle water tower was built in 1949 by Caldwell Tanks for the G.S. Suppiger catsup plant. Saved from demolition and restored by a community preservation campaign in 1995, it remains beside Route 159 as one of America’s best-known roadside landmarks and can be photographed from nearby public areas.
Murfreesboro, TN
A massive wooden bucket built by a local cooperage became a Murfreesboro landmark and was later rebuilt after a fire. The absurdly oversized container is preserved in Cannonsburgh Village as a piece of old-fashioned promotional craftsmanship.
Traverse City, MI
Traverse City’s giant pie pan is the surviving hardware from the city’s July 25, 1987 attempt to bake the world’s largest cherry pie, which weighed more than 28,000 pounds. The pan remains outdoors as a roadside monument to the event, giving travelers a quick photo stop tied directly to northern Michigan’s cherry industry.
High Point, NC
High Point’s oversized furniture landmark began in 1926 as a giant “Bureau of Information” promoting the city’s furniture industry. It was completely redesigned in 1996 into the present 38-foot chest of drawers with giant socks hanging out, and travelers can still view and photograph the exterior from the surrounding streets.
Las Cruces, NM
A roughly 47-foot chile pepper towers beside a motel in Las Cruces as an exaggerated tribute to southern New Mexico's chile culture. It can be photographed from lawful public or customer-access areas without entering private guest spaces.
Fort Smith, AR
A huge pickle wearing a Santa hat stands outside a Christmas attraction in Fort Smith. The deliberately absurd sculpture riffs on the Christmas-pickle ornament tradition.
Hurley, WI
An enormous corkscrew sculpture rises outside a Hurley business along U.S. 2. Its exaggerated spiral silhouette makes a strange punctuation mark along a Northwoods highway better known for mines, forests and snow.
Olivia, MN
Olivia’s 25-foot fiberglass corn cob stands in Memorial Park as a playful symbol of the community’s official “Corn Capital of the World” identity. The exact installation year is not clearly documented in current reliable sources, but the cob remains an easy public park photo stop along Highway 212.
Hebron, NE
Hebron built an enormous covered porch swing large enough to seat many people at once, turning an ordinary piece of backyard furniture into a civic landmark. It remains an easy public photo stop in Roosevelt Park.
Lincoln, IL
Lincoln’s Railsplitter Covered Wagon was built by David Bentley and donated to the city in January 2007. The 25-foot-tall, 40-foot-long wagon carries an oversized seated Abraham Lincoln and remains a free Route 66 photo stop; its canvas cover is removed during winter and returned in spring.
Belgrade, MN
A huge black crow watches over Belgrade from a landscaped public park. The bird turns the town's Crow River connection into one of central Minnesota's most straightforward giant-animal photo stops.
Sugarcreek, OH
This giant animated clock was built in 1972 for the Alpine-Alpa restaurant near Wilmot and later donated to Sugarcreek. It was moved and restored downtown in 2012, where travelers can still watch its cuckoo bird, mechanical band and dancing figures perform on a regular schedule.
Wilson, KS
A 22-foot decorated kraslice stands in Wilson as a giant tribute to the community's Czech heritage. The colorful egg combines immigrant tradition with the oversized-object logic of a classic roadside attraction.
Rogers, AR
A 25-foot-tall Red Ryder BB gun replica stands outside the Daisy Museum in downtown Rogers. Installed in 2021, it is one of Arkansas’s most literal 'world’s largest' roadside attractions.
Warren, OH
Warren’s giant drumsticks were carved from two roughly 23-foot poplar logs by local artist Joel Eggert and installed as part of Dave Grohl Alley in 2013. They remain outdoors with murals and other Grohl-themed artwork celebrating the Foo Fighters frontman’s Warren birthplace.
Goodland, KS
Goodland’s giant easel is part of artist Cameron Cross’s international Van Gogh Project and carries a 24-by-32-foot reproduction of Van Gogh’s “Three Sunflowers in a Vase.” It was installed in Pioneer Park on June 19, 2001 and remains a free roadside artwork visible from Business Highway 24.
Mentone, IN
Mentone's approximately ten-to-twelve-foot concrete egg was built in 1946 to advertise the community's egg industry and festival. It still stands downtown emblazoned with "The Egg Basket of the Midwest," preserving a wonderfully literal piece of small-town promotional history.
Winlock, WA
Winlock’s giant egg tradition began in 1923 when the first oversized egg was built for a parade celebrating the Pacific Highway bridge and the local poultry industry. Several replacements followed as earlier versions deteriorated, and today a later fiberglass incarnation stands in Vern Zander Memorial Park as the town’s signature roadside landmark.
Afton, WY
A huge arch spanning US 89 is assembled from thousands of elk antlers and serves as the defining landmark of downtown Afton.
Timonium, MD
Smyth Jewelers unveiled this enormous stainless-steel-and-acrylic engagement ring outside its Timonium showroom in 2015. The sculpture stands 17 feet tall and 14 feet wide, was designed as a permanent landmark, and is meant to be approached for photos from the store's public frontage.
Springfield, MO
The giant fork is in Springfield, not Battlefield. Noble & Associates created the 35-foot, roughly 11-ton stainless-steel fork in 1990 for a restaurant, and after the restaurant closed it was moved to its current office-property setting at 2215 W. Chesterfield Street; visitors can pull in for a quick photo.
Creede, CO
A roughly 40-foot aluminum fork created by local artists to out-measure an earlier giant fork in Missouri. It is pure oversized-roadside-object territory and an easy add-on while exploring Creede.
Georgetown, DE
A gigantic frying pan, about ten feet across and roughly eighteen feet long including its handle, is displayed at the Marvel Carriage Museum. It was built for a chicken-frying event and fits neatly with Sussex County's poultry history.
Columbus, OH
A giant stainless-steel gavel lies beside the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in downtown Columbus. The oversized public sculpture is commonly promoted as the world's largest gavel and can be viewed from the public plaza without entering the court building.
