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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Woolwich, ME
A gigantic inflatable lobster named Larry sprawls across the roof of Taste of Maine Restaurant. The oversized crustacean has become a highly visible Route 1 landmark and one of the state’s easiest drive-by oddities.
Scarborough, ME
Lenny is a life-size moose made from about 1,700 pounds of milk chocolate and displayed inside Len Libby Candies. He is joined by other chocolate woodland figures in one of Maine’s strangest edible-looking roadside displays.
Madawaska, ME
This unusual park marks the northeastern corner of a four-corners touring tradition for long-distance motorcyclists crossing the continental United States. Monuments, engraved pavers, and rider records commemorate travelers who complete enormous cross-country circuits linking Madawaska with the other recognized corners.
Poland, ME
This elaborate building was Maine’s pavilion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. After the fair, it was dismantled, transported back to Maine by rail, and reconstructed at Poland Spring, where the former world’s-fair building still survives.
Thomaston, ME
This unusual state-run showroom sells furniture, carved objects, toys, artwork, and other goods made by incarcerated people in Maine’s correctional system. The tradition dates back generations and makes the store far stranger than a typical roadside craft shop.
Moscow, ME
More than a hundred imaginative birdhouses line a long roadside display north of Moscow. They are constructed in an array of shapes and materials, turning an otherwise remote stretch of U.S. Route 201 into an unexpectedly elaborate folk-art installation.
Bath, ME
This strange red creature is assembled from salvaged metal and found objects, producing something between a dragon, mechanical beast, and junkyard monster. It sits where passing travelers can get a look without needing a full museum stop.
Southwest Harbor, ME
Life-size figures of Jake and Elwood Blues stand unexpectedly outside a water-bottling facility on Mount Desert Island. The sunglasses, suits, and deadpan poses make the pair an easy-to-spot piece of roadside pop-culture weirdness.
Union, ME
A roughly 32-foot-tall wooden bottle shaped like Maine’s famously divisive Moxie soda stands at the Union Fairgrounds. The structure was originally created as a promotional building for the 1906 New England Food Fair before eventually being preserved in Maine.
Eastport, ME
Nerida is a bronze mermaid sculpture installed on the Eastport waterfront in 2015. The figure ties the city’s working waterfront to maritime myth and makes an easy stop while exploring the eastern edge of Maine.
Deer Isle, ME
Behind a jam and jelly business is an sprawling handmade village of sculptures, buildings, figures, vehicles, creatures, and found-object scenes known as Nellieville. The dense folk-art environment is strange enough to be a destination on its own.
Eastport, ME
Powerful tides in the waters between Eastport and Deer Island create Old Sow, generally regarded as the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere. It can sometimes be seen from shore, but boat tours provide closer views when tides and conditions cooperate.
Perry, ME
An old granite marker beside the road commemorates the halfway point between the Equator and North Pole. Modern surveying places the exact 45th parallel a short distance away, making the historic marker both a geographic landmark and a surveying curiosity.
Liberty, ME
This tiny eight-sided building began as a harness shop in 1870 and later served as Liberty’s post office. The town promotes it as the only octagonal post-office building in the United States; it now operates as a small historical museum with limited summer access.
Rumford, ME
Rumford’s Paul Bunyan is an approximately 18-foot fiberglass Muffler Man that has stood in the area since at least the mid-20th century and was later donated to the town and rebuilt with internal supports. Babe the Blue Ox joined him at the visitor-center site much later, and travelers can photograph the pair for free beside Route 2.
Bangor, ME
Bangor’s 31-foot Paul Bunyan has stood near Main Street since 1959 and represents the city’s claim to the legendary lumberjack. The giant fiberglass figure also fits neatly into Bangor’s larger Stephen King and folklore identity.
York, ME
An enormous fiberglass Paul Bunyan head appears among the trees near the York River with the rest of the legendary lumberjack nowhere in sight. The head is associated with private land, so it should be viewed only from legitimate public access without entering the property.
Prospect, ME
An elevator inside one of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge towers carries visitors to an observation room about 420 feet above the river. The enclosed observatory offers a 360-degree view and is accessed through the Fort Knox historic-site entrance.
Belfast, ME
Perry’s Nut House is a surviving piece of old-school Maine roadside culture, historically famous for taxidermy, curiosities, oversized objects, souvenirs, and odd displays. The revived shop continues the name and keeps the strange roadside-stop tradition alive.
Belfast, ME
Beside Perry’s Nut House stands a bright pink metal dinosaur skeleton known as Pink Floyd. The current version was built by Skowhegan High School students as a sturdier replacement for an earlier wooden dinosaur, continuing the site’s long tradition of bizarre roadside displays.
Sedgwick, ME
A tiny self-service roadside bookshop associated with Pushcart Press claims the title of the world’s smallest bookstore. The roughly shed-sized structure uses an honor-system setup and looks more like a miniature book stand than a conventional store.
Pembroke, ME
Powerful tides force water through a narrow channel here, creating standing waves, whirlpools, and rapids that reverse direction as the tide changes. It is a dramatic natural oddity best treated as a viewing stop rather than a swimming location.
Skowhegan, ME
Bernard Langlais created this approximately 62-foot wooden sculpture for Maine’s 1969 bicentennial, and it became one of the state’s most recognizable roadside giants. The weather-damaged sculpture is undergoing an active preservation effort in 2026, so its appearance may change as work continues. Preservation update: https://www.wagmtv.com/2026/08/31/new-local-group-steps-save-restore-famous-62-foot-skowhegan-indian-sculpture/
Eastport, ME
This oversized fiberglass fisherman was created during production of the reality series Murder in Small Town X, which filmed in Eastport. The statue later took on a more serious meaning as a memorial to the show’s winner, New York firefighter Ángel Juarbe Jr., who died on September 11, 2001.
