Road trips definitely aren’t for everyone. They’re not the most efficient way to travel if you’re on a time crunch, and they require either renting or owning a vehicle. But if you’re not in a hurry and you’re happy to go wherever the wind blows you, a road trip can be an incredible experience.
And if you’re making your way through the United States, there are plenty of little stops you can make to prevent the journey from growing stale. We visited the Giant Roadside Attractions group on Facebook and gathered some of their most amusing photos below. From the world’s largest pair of cowboy boots to a ginormous loaf of bread, you never know what you’ll encounter on a random country road. So enjoy scrolling through, and be sure to upvote the attractions you’d be happy to pull over for!
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It was pretty windy, but that spaghetti isn’t going anywhere! (Thank you to the ones that recommended this in the groups I’m in!)
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Standing over 56 feet tall, this roadside giant proves that in Casey, everything really is bigger.
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The World’s Largest Ketchup Bottle in Collinsville, Illinois. Because nothing says road trip like a 170-foot bottle of catsup towering over the Midwest. 😂🇺🇸 Another classic roadside win!
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A hamlet on Long Island, New York. Built in 1931, this duck-shaped building served originally as a poultry store and has since become an iconic example of “duck” or novelty architecture in the United States.
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His spot at the HiWay Cafe will soon be filled by Big Chef, a muffler man with chef hat on and cooking utensils in his hands.
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Here are a few interesting details about it: • Location: It stands at the Georgia-Pacific Dixie cup manufacturing plant on Forbes Road in Lexington. • Purpose: While it looks like a piece of giant pop-art, it is a functional water tower used by the factory for fire protection and plant operations. • Size: It is roughly 175 feet tall. To give you a sense of scale, if it were actually filled with water, it could hold several hundred thousand gallons! • Significance: It has become a beloved local landmark for travelers on the nearby highways and a classic example of “roadside Americana” architecture.
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Location • North Star Mall, San Antonio, Texas Size • About 35 feet tall, 33 feet long, and 9 feet wide • Weigh close to 10,000 pounds History • 1979 – Created by Texas artist Bob “Daddy-O” Wade in Washington, D.C. as a public art piece near the White House. • 1980 – Purchased and moved to San Antonio. The journey was tricky; the boots famously got stuck under an overpass during transport. • Present – They’ve stood outside the mall for more than 40 years, serving as a major roadside attraction and photo spot. • Guinness World Records lists them as the largest cowboy boot sculpture in the world. • Bob Wade joked they could hold 300,000 gallons of beer if hollow. • The boots have become an iconic Texas symbol and are featured in local celebrations, postcards, and tourist stops.
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• Origin: The Big Soup Can was the initial project of the Outdoor Art Museum, which began in the early 2000s by Cathi Ball, a former Eastland High School art teacher. • Purpose: Ball envisioned an outdoor art exhibit, and the first step was converting a large, 15-foot oil tank into an enormous replica of an Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Can. • Artistic Influence: The art piece is a direct tribute to Andy Warhol’s iconic Pop Art series, Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), which elevated the commonplace consumer product to the status of fine art. • Outdoor Art Museum: The soup can is part of a larger, ongoing community effort. Over the course of the following decade, Ball, along with the high school art department and other collaborators, painted and installed over 10 replicas of famous artwork around the town, forming the Outdoor Art Museum. • Location: The Big Soup Can is often noted as being located in or near the Dairy Queen parking lot in Eastland, Texas. • Context: It’s an example of the unique and quirky roadside attractions found across Texas and the United States, providing a touch of culture and whimsy to the small town.
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Carved in 2023 by Bear Hollow Wood Carvers, this massive chainsaw/wooden masterpiece shows Otis sitting on a broken dock… just casually fishing like a local.
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Here are some fun facts about it: • Location: It is located in Madeira Beach, Florida, at John’s Pass Village & Boardwalk, right outside a Hooters restaurant. • Size: The sculpture weighs 1,037 pounds (about half a ton!) and hangs from a giant fishing hook on a 14-foot-tall beam. • The Buckets: Beneath the giant wing, there are large buckets painted to look like they are filled with “Medium” and “Mild” wing sauce. • Material: Even though it looks like it just came out of a deep fryer, it is actually made of plastic.
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Here are some quick facts about it: • Material: It is made of bronze. • Artist: The statue was created by John Kearney and put in the park in 2001. • Design: It’s famous because it looks like it was built out of old car bumpers! Size The statue stands about 7 feet tall. It’s built to look much bigger and tougher than the character feels on the inside, which is why he looks so muscular even though he’s “cowardly.”
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in Wellston, Oklahoma. right next store to the Butcher BBQ Stand, on route 66.
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Here are a few cool things to know about it: • What it is: It is a small brick building with a giant, three-story-tall milk bottle on top. • The History: It was built back in 1930. Originally, it was meant to advertise Townley’s Dairy. • The Food: Even though it looks like a milk bottle, it has been home to many different restaurants over the years. You can see a sign for “Bánh Mì Ba Lẹ” in the window, which serves tasty Vietnamese sandwiches. • Where it is: You can find it right on a triangle-shaped piece of land along Classen Boulevard. It is actually listed on the National Register of Historic Places because it is such a unique example of “roadside architecture” from the old days.
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He’s at the entrance to the Ocean Breeze Water Park in Virginia Beach and his blazingly bright outfit is definitely turning heads!
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I am happy to report recently the tire he is holding was replaced with a muffler!
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