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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Sac City, IA
Sac City’s current popcorn ball was built by community volunteers in 2016 and weighs 9,370 pounds, replacing earlier record attempts by the town. It is protected inside its own transparent display building near the Sac City Museum Village, allowing travelers to see the giant snack even when the museum itself is closed.
Plover, WI
Plover installed its nearly 39-foot, roughly three-ton potato masher on May 19, 2023 outside the Food + Farm Exploration Center. The giant utensil was designed specifically as a selfie landmark celebrating central Wisconsin agriculture, and travelers can photograph the exterior sculpture even if they are not touring the center.
Rothsay, MN
Rothsay's enormous prairie chicken commemorates the bird and the grassland landscape surrounding the town. The statue is intentionally oversized and positioned as a quick roadside stop just off the main route.
Tulsa, OK
Two enormous bronze hands rise from the entrance area of Oral Roberts University in a monumental gesture of prayer. The sculpture's scale makes it one of Tulsa's strangest pieces of religious public art.
Circleville, OH
Circleville's one-million-gallon water tower was painted in 1997 to resemble a giant orange pumpkin, reflecting the city's famous annual Pumpkin Show. The tower remains part of the working water system and is best viewed and photographed from surrounding public streets rather than approached as a walk-in attraction.
Lincoln, IL
A 40-foot covered wagon carries a giant Abraham Lincoln; it moved to 120 N. Kickapoo Street in 2026, so older map pins are obsolete.
Hopkins, MN
Hopkins commemorates its berry-growing past with an enormous raspberry in a downtown public space. The sculpture is an intentionally outsized reminder that the suburb was once closely associated with commercial raspberry production.
Franklin, IN
A gigantic wooden rocking chair survives outside a furniture business along US 31. An equally oversized chest of drawers once accompanied it but was destroyed in a fire, leaving the giant chair as the property's solitary oversized landmark.
Marshfield, WI
Marshfield’s enormous round barn was built in 1916 to house purebred livestock and measures about 150 feet across and 70 feet high. It still serves its original agricultural purpose during the Central Wisconsin State Fair, while interior tours outside events require advance arrangement with the fair office.
Springfield, IL
Motorheads' exterior now features an enormous Route 66 shield and a 30-foot Muffler Man called Big Ron, both built for oversized roadside impact.
Knoxville, TN
A giant motorized Rubik's Cube created for the 1982 World's Fair survives in Knoxville as a piece of oversized puzzle history. Its continued presence gives the former fairgrounds another distinctly retro-futurist artifact.
Steele, ND
“Sandy,” Steele’s 40-foot metal sandhill crane, was built in 1998–99 by self-taught ironworker James Miller. The bird stands in a landscaped area just off I-94 and remains an easy roadside stop celebrating the large crane migrations through central North Dakota.
Owensboro, KY
This enormous sassafras at Frederica Street and Maple Avenue has a trunk circumference of roughly 21 feet and is believed to be several centuries old. Local lore says homeowner Grace Rash once confronted road crews with a shotgun to prevent the tree from being cut down during a highway-widening project.
O’Neill, NE
A giant shamrock painted into the pavement marks O’Neill’s identity as Nebraska’s self-proclaimed Irish Capital. The oversized symbol occupies a downtown intersection and works as a fast roadside photo stop.
La Crosse, WI
La Crosse’s “six-pack” is actually six 54-foot beer storage tanks built by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1969 and painted as giant Old Style cans in 1970. The working brewery tanks have changed branding several times and returned to Old Style imagery in 2023; travelers view them from the surrounding public streets rather than touring the industrial tanks themselves.
Laona, WI
An enormous metal kettle beside U.S. 8 is a relic of Laona's lumber-camp identity and has long been promoted as the world's largest soup kettle. Its exaggerated scale makes it an easy old-school roadside photo stop.
Lucas, KS
A giant roadside travel plate welcomes visitors on the edge of Lucas and celebrates the souvenir plates once collected on cross-country trips. Its exaggerated scale fits the town's larger tradition of deliberately strange public art.
Hamilton, MO
A 22-foot spool outside the Missouri Quilt Museum is wrapped with more than one million yards of thread. Visitors can photograph the oversized sewing landmark and, when museum programs permit, contribute additional thread to the ever-growing display.
Lampasas, TX
Lampasas’ giant spur was forged by ironsmith Waylon Dobbs for local businesswoman Leah Caruthers and installed on March 14, 2016. The roughly 35-foot steel, copper and iron sculpture earned Guinness recognition and remains visible from U.S. 281 with parking available for photos.
Strawberry Point, IA
Strawberry Point’s 15-foot fiberglass strawberry was dedicated in the late 1960s and has stood outside City Hall for more than half a century. Restored again in 2025, it remains an easy public photo stop and one of the town’s defining landmarks.
Ellerbe, NC
The Berry Patch is topped by an enormous strawberry-shaped building that functions as one of the most conspicuous roadside fruit monuments in the Carolinas. The giant berry advertises the farm market below it and is visible directly from the highway.
Halstad, MN
A giant sugar beet celebrates the crop and processing economy of the Red River Valley. The monument turns an ordinary root crop into a deliberately absurd roadside landmark at the edge of Halstad.
Huntington Beach, CA
Huntington Beach’s enormous surfboard was built for the Epic Big Board Ride on June 20, 2015, when 66 people successfully rode it and Guinness certified it as the world’s largest surfboard. The 42-foot board was subsequently placed on display at the International Surfing Museum, so visitors see it as part of the museum rather than as a freestanding roadside object.
Summerville, SC
Summerville created a giant batch of sweet tea on June 10, 2016, filling a custom oversized Mason jar with more than 2,500 gallons to set a Guinness record. The permanent jar remains near Town Hall as a roadside monument to the record attempt and the town’s claim as the birthplace of sweet tea.
