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Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Warren, VT
An old shipping container at Cloud Water Farm has been painted into an enormous yellow stick of butter. Created as a playful celebration of food and farm culture, it became an instant Route 100 roadside photo stop.
Ironwood, MI
Stormy Kromer's famous wool cap is manufactured in Ironwood, and an enormous version of it sits outside the factory on Wall Street. The giant cap can be viewed anytime, while the factory store and scheduled tours provide a closer look at the century-old Michigan clothing brand.
Goodland, KS
A gigantic reproduction of Van Gogh's sunflower painting stands on an approximately 80-foot easel beside the highway. It was built as part of artist Cameron Cross's international Big Easel Project and has become Goodland's signature roadside landmark.
Charleston, SC
A genuine basalt column removed from Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway stands thousands of miles away in Charleston. The strange transplanted piece of geology gives visitors a small physical fragment of one of Europe’s most famous natural formations.
Lodi, WI
A flat-topped sandstone bluff rises hundreds of feet above the surrounding countryside. Trails climb through forest to dramatic cliff views, creating a geological landmark that looks far more mountainous than its southern Wisconsin setting.
Brazil, IN
In the 1950s, the nation of Brazil gave its Indiana namesake a massive granite reproduction of the Chafariz de São José fountain as a gesture of friendship. The roughly 40-foot-wide monument still stands near Nabuca Drive, although the fountain itself is generally dry.
Antares, AZ
A towering green tiki-style head rises beside Route 66 at Antares Point, surrounded by additional sculpture and remnants of an old roadside business. It is modern outsider art deliberately built to become a highway landmark.
Salt Lake City, UT
This hidden city park contains a Joseph Smith sphinx, brick-clothed self-portrait, giant carved books and dozens of inscribed stones created by stonemason Thomas Child. Salt Lake City calls it Utah's only identified visionary art environment.
East Haddam, CT
Actor William Gillette, famous for portraying Sherlock Holmes, built this eccentric stone castle above the Connecticut River with secret doors, custom wooden locks, unusual built-in furniture and an estate railroad. The grounds are broadly accessible while interior castle tours are seasonal.
Hamburg, NJ
This elaborate fairy-tale castle was built in the 1920s as part of a children's attraction associated with a local flour mill. Its towers, figures and storybook details survive, but public access has changed repeatedly; travelers should treat it as an exterior roadside landmark unless an official opening is advertised.
Fairview, OK
Selenite crystals in the mesa cap rock glint in the sun, producing the Glass versus Gloss Mountains naming story that has followed the range for generations. A steep stair-and-trail climb reaches the top of Cathedral Mountain.
Green River, UT
Thousands of mushroom-shaped sandstone hoodoos fill a basin that looks more like a fabricated alien landscape than a conventional desert valley. The formations are publicly accessible within the state park.
Frostburg, MD
A church congregation began planning a full-scale Noah's Ark beside Interstate 68 after its pastor said he received a divine command to build it in 1976. The enormous steel skeleton remains an unfinished landmark decades later; view it from legitimate public roadside areas and do not enter the construction property without permission.
Goffs, CA
A restored 1914 schoolhouse anchors a desert cultural center preserving mining, railroad and Route 66 history near the Nevada and Arizona borders.
Oklahoma City, OK
This 1958 geodesic bank building is wrapped in a gold-colored dome at a prominent Route 66-era intersection. Its futuristic geometry remains one of Oklahoma City's most recognizable mid-century landmarks.
Tulsa, OK
The 75-foot Golden Driller towers outside Expo Square as an oversized tribute to Oklahoma's petroleum industry. The concrete-and-plaster figure is one of the tallest free-standing statues in the United States.
Goldfield, NV
A monumental 1907 school building survives from Goldfield’s peak population, an outsized reminder of how quickly the desert boomtown grew and collapsed.
Mexican Hat, UT
The San Juan River doubles back through a series of tightly entrenched meanders more than a thousand feet below the rim. The geometry is best understood from the developed state-park overlook.
Toledo, WA
Tall steel towers and monumental figures rise beside Interstate 5 in a private roadside memorial complex created by Dominic Gospodor. The safest experience is from designated lawful roadside or viewing areas; do not enter private property.
San Antonio, TX
More than 100-million-year-old dinosaur tracks lie along a rugged backcountry route in Government Canyon and are often visited on ranger-led hikes.
Guilford, CT
Each holiday season, Gozzi's Turkey Farm displays live turkeys whose feathers are dyed vivid colors including pink, purple and green. The tradition has become a peculiar local Thanksgiving and Christmas-season ritual rather than a normal farm visit.
Baltimore, MD
This alley behind Baltimore's Motor House is one of the city's best-known legal graffiti spaces, with nearly every wall and surface repeatedly covered by new layers of paint. Because the artwork constantly changes, repeat travelers may find an almost entirely different alley from one visit to the next.
Ann Arbor, MI
A narrow downtown passage off East Liberty Street has evolved into an ever-changing public graffiti environment. Layers of tags, murals, stickers and new paintings regularly cover earlier work, making the alley look different from one visit to the next.
Bolton, NC
A sprawling private folk-art environment contains hundreds of fiberglass animals, cartoon figures, giant characters, statues, and repurposed roadside objects. The collection feels like pieces of several extinct amusement parks gathered into one rural property.
