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Wall Drug’s Giant Dinosaur and Jackalope

Wall, South Dakota

Wall Drug surrounds a working drugstore with an eighty-foot dinosaur, a giant rideable jackalope, an animatronic T. rex, and enough roadside kitsch for an entire town.

Curious Landmarks

Center of the Universe

Wallace, Idaho

A decorated manhole cover marks the exact center of everything, according to the town of Wallace.

Curious Landmarks

War of the Worlds Landing Site Monument

West Windsor Township, New Jersey

A bronze monument marks the site of a Martian invasion that existed only on radio.

Roadside Attractions

Green Animals Topiary Garden

Portsmouth, Rhode Island

More than eighty topiary animals and figures fill a seven-acre estate where shrubs have been trained into bears, birds, a giraffe, a camel, a unicorn, and…

Giant Objects

Old Ben and the Giant Sycamore Stump

Kokomo, Indiana

A taxidermied record-size steer shares a park pavilion with the enormous hollow stump of an ancient sycamore.

Curious Landmarks

Little A’Le’Inn

Rachel, Nevada

A tiny desert inn turns Area 51 lore into alien burgers, souvenirs, and UFO photo ops.

Roadside Attractions

Seattle Gum Wall

Seattle, Washington

Thousands of pieces of chewed gum have transformed a brick alley beside Pike Place Market into a sticky, multicolored public artwork nobody officially planned.

Curious Landmarks

Future Birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk

Riverside, Iowa

A small Iowa town claims to be the birthplace of a fictional starship captain who will not be born for centuries.

Roadside Attractions

The Peabody Ducks

Memphis, Tennessee

Every day, five mallards march through a grand Memphis hotel on a red carpet, spend their shift in a marble lobby fountain, then parade back out…

Roadside Attractions

Lemmon Petrified Wood Park & Museum

Lemmon, South Dakota

Thousands of tons of petrified wood, fossilized grass, and round boulders were stacked into towers, pyramids, arches, and buildings across a downtown city block.

Roadside Attractions

Papermoon Diner

Baltimore, Maryland

Mannequins, dolls, toys, sculptures, kitchen tools, vintage objects, and brightly colored installations turn a functioning Baltimore diner into a constantly mutating art environment.

Roadside Attractions

House of Frankenstein Wax Museum

Lake George

A monster-filled wax museum with animatronic scares on Lake George’s main street.