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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Chester, WV
Chester’s giant teapot began as an oversized Hires Root Beer keg before William “Babe” Devon bought it in 1938, added a handle, spout and lid, and turned it into a teapot-shaped concession stand promoting the region’s pottery industry. Restored and relocated over the years, it now stands on a landscaped roadside site as one of West Virginia’s classic oversized attractions.
Casey, IL
Casey’s enormous teeter-totter is another piece of the Big Things Small Town project, built as a functioning oversized playground object and certified as a world-record attraction. It is visible outdoors for free beside Casey’s other giants, while opportunities to actually ride it are restricted to scheduled dates during the tourism season.
Bryant Pond, ME
A roughly 14-foot-tall telephone commemorates Bryant Pond’s place in telecommunications history as the home of the last hand-cranked telephone exchange in the United States. The giant phone stands as a roadside monument to the town’s unusually late survival of operator-connected service.
Murphy, NC
A massive rendering of the Ten Commandments covers a mountainside at Fields of the Wood, a religious park operated by the Church of God of Prophecy. Visitors can climb the hillside among enormous letters and other large-scale biblical monuments.
Nevis, MN
Nevis has celebrated its lake country with a giant tiger muskie since 1949. The oversized fish sits in a public setting near the Heartland Trail and gives the tiny community one of Minnesota's oldest giant-fish landmarks.
Seward, NE
Harold Davisson built an enormous time capsule in Seward and later added a pyramid and even a car to maintain its record-setting scale. The capsule was opened in June 2025 after roughly fifty years, so OddWay should describe this as the historic time-capsule site rather than incorrectly claiming it remains sealed.
Regent, ND
Three gigantic farm-family figures made from metal tanks and pipe stand beside the road south of Regent. The deliberately homemade-looking giants are among the most recognizable pieces on the Enchanted Highway.
Napoleon, OH
A huge Campbell's tomato-soup-can water tower rises above the company's Napoleon-area processing plant and is commonly promoted as the world's largest representation of the familiar can. The tower is inside an active industrial property, so photograph it from a safe public roadside location and do not enter the factory grounds without permission.
Holmdel Township, NJ
The giant three-legged water tower at Bell Works was deliberately shaped like an early transistor, the revolutionary device invented at Bell Laboratories. Its saucer-like form makes the scientific tribute look more like a machine from a vintage alien-invasion film.
Frazee, MN
Frazee’s current giant turkey, Big Tom II, was installed on September 19, 1998 after the original statue accidentally burned while workers were removing it. The fiberglass bird stands more than 20 feet tall in Lions Park and remains a free roadside photo stop overlooking the entrance to town.
Rush City, MN
An enormous walleye greets travelers in Rush City, one of several Minnesota towns that have made fishing culture literally larger than life. The sculpture is a simple, routeable roadside stop rather than an indoor attraction.
Logan, OH
A giant washboard measuring roughly two stories tall is mounted on the Columbus Washboard Company building in Logan, advertising a factory that still produces traditional washboards. The exterior landmark can be seen at any time from public ground, while the factory store and any interior access follow business hours.
Montague, MI
Montague's enormous working weathervane rises roughly 48 feet above Ellenwood Park and is topped by a detailed schooner. The ship represents the Ella Ellenwood, a lumber schooner associated with the area's nineteenth-century maritime trade.
Casey, IL
Casey’s first major world-record project was the giant wind chime, whose steel framework went up November 17, 2011 and whose chimes were installed on December 15 that year. The 54-foot structure still stands downtown and visitors can pull the rope to make the huge chimes sound.
Iowa City, IA
An enormous painted wooden nickel stands beside a rural road north of Iowa City. Built as a political statement and roadside curiosity, it turns a familiar coin into a house-sized object.
Quincy, MA
A polished granite ball six feet in diameter and weighing about 9.5 tons sits near Quincy City Hall. The 1925 monument was once promoted by Ripley's Believe It or Not as the 'most nearly perfect sphere in the world,' an absurdly precise claim for an enormous stone ball left outdoors for a century.
Prestonsburg, KY
A gigantic seated Abraham Lincoln originally commissioned by disgraced attorney Eric C. Conn now overlooks Middle Creek National Battlefield. The statue was deliberately built slightly smaller than the Lincoln Memorial figure in Washington and was relocated to the battlefield in 2021 after Conn's fraud conviction. Address: 2968 KY-114, Prestonsburg, KY
Green River, UT
A giant painted watermelon slice pays tribute to Green River's long association with melon farming and the annual Melon Days celebration. It is a straightforward roadside photo stop.
Dothan, AL
Dothan’s tiny triangular block sits at the meeting of North Appletree, North College and East Troy streets. The Camellia Garden Club marked it on May 1, 1964 after Ripley’s recognition, and travelers today find a tiny traffic island with street signs and a granite marker that can be viewed from the surrounding public streets.
Carrabelle, FL
Phone-booth-sized police station replica commemorating Carrabelle's famously tiny 1963 police call station.
Bardstown, KY
A roughly 60-foot stainless-steel crucifix rises above St. Thomas Cemetery south of Bardstown. Built in 1986, the unusually skeletal wire-frame figure of Jesus is visible above the cemetery and has long been promoted as one of the tallest crucifixes of its type.
Burlington, VT
Burlington artist Bren Alvarez created “File Under So. Co., Waiting for…” in 2002 from stacked filing cabinets as a joke about decades of paperwork surrounding the long-delayed Southern Connector highway. The sculpture was moved and revised in 2020 and now stands at an art park outside 208 Flynn Avenue, where visitors can view it freely from the public-facing site.
Piercy, CA
This approximately 44-foot carving was cut upright from a dead redwood at Confusion Hill, making it a freestanding chainsaw carving rather than a totem carved horizontally and raised later. Confusion Hill says the carving itself took about three months to make; its exact year is not well documented, and travelers now find it in the attraction’s parking area at Piercy.
Sapulpa, OK
A 66-foot replica gasoline pump stands outside the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum and doubles as an observation structure. Its deliberately excessive height turns the most ordinary Route 66 object into a landmark.
