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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Keystone, NE
Keystone’s tiny church was built to serve both Catholic and Protestant residents of a small ranching community. Separate religious symbols and an unusual shared-use history make the little building a distinctive piece of rural architecture. Interior access is generally by arrangement rather than guaranteed walk-in hours.
Taylor, NE
Life-size painted figures are positioned around Taylor in scenes depicting residents, workers and everyday town life. The growing outdoor art project turns streets, lots and buildings into an eerie open-air population of wooden or metal “villagers.”
Harrison, NE
Erosion has carved the badlands here into mushroom-like hoodoos, cliffs and channels that look dramatically unlike the surrounding plains. Fossil trackways preserve evidence of ancient animals, including a rare pursuit sequence involving entelodonts and rhinoceroses. Roads can become difficult after rain or snow.
Crawford, NE
The museum’s signature display is the fossilized remains of two Columbian mammoths found with their tusks locked together, apparently killed during combat. The dramatic specimen makes this small museum inside Fort Robinson one of Nebraska’s most visually distinctive fossil stops.
Boys Town, NE
Millions of canceled postage stamps were assembled into a giant spherical mass at Boys Town. The object turns an ordinary collectible into a deliberately absurd oversized artifact and remains one of the Omaha area’s classic niche curiosities.
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.
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.
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.
