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Tommy Turtle

Bottineau, North Dakota

Bottineau combined two local symbols into one spectacularly ridiculous landmark: an enormous turtle mounted on an equally enormous snowmobile.

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Peachoid

Gaffney, South Carolina

A one-million-gallon working water tower was sculpted and painted into a 135-foot peach, complete with an enormous leaf, stem, and deeply exaggerated cleft.

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Lucy the Elephant

Margate City, New Jersey

Climb inside a six-story Victorian elephant built to sell beachfront real estate.

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Giant Muskie

Hayward, Wisconsin

A four-and-a-half-story muskie contains a museum passage through its body and an observation deck inside its enormous open mouth.

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World’s Largest Rubik’s Cube

Knoxville, Tennessee

A ten-foot-tall, 1,200-pound Rubik's Cube created for the 1982 World's Fair now sits inside the Knoxville Convention Center like a puzzle for giants.

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POPS Sixty-Six-Foot Soda Bottle

Arcadia, Oklahoma

A four-ton steel soda bottle rises sixty-six feet beside Route 66 and comes alive after dark with four thousand color-changing LEDs.

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World’s Largest Chest of Drawers

High Point, North Carolina

A building-sized chest of drawers with two enormous socks hanging from one drawer turns High Point's furniture and hosiery history into a piece of architectural advertising.

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Dinah the Pink Dinosaur

Vernal, Utah

A forty-foot pink dinosaur wearing a giant grin has greeted travelers entering Vernal since 1958 and somehow became historic enough for the National Register.

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World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock

Sugarcreek, Ohio

A 23-foot-tall cuckoo clock comes alive every half hour with a bird, dancing figures, and a mechanical polka band.

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Skeleton Man Walking Skeleton Dinosaur

Midland, South Dakota

Beside Interstate 90, a towering human skeleton casually walks a skeletal Tyrannosaurus rex on a leash as if this is a perfectly normal South Dakota errand.

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Big Brutus

West Mineral, Kansas

An 11-million-pound electric shovel towers over the Kansas coalfields where it was abandoned as too large to move.

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Fremont Troll

Seattle, Washington

An 18-foot concrete troll crouches beneath Seattle's Aurora Bridge with one enormous hand wrapped around a real Volkswagen Beetle.