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America is famous for many things: Hollywood movies, towering skyscrapers, and vast national parks. But there’s another side to the U.S. that’s often overlooked—roadside attractions. They’re spread across the nation’s highways and byways, offering travelers a surprise at every turn.

The Facebook group ‘Roadside America – Offbeat Quirky Tourist Attractions’ is where people share these unusual landmarks—everything from a giant buffalo statue to a whimsical Dr. Seuss museum. We’ve sifted through their posts to bring you some of the best and most eccentric tourist spots. Check them out below and don’t forget to upvote your favorites!

#1 A Replica Of The Up House In The Up Movie. Built In Herriman, Utah

Image credits: Linda Cook Schoss

#2 Largest Cowboy Boots In San Antonio TX

Image credits: Kevin Waterhouse

#3 Bronze Statue Of Albert Einstein In Washington DC…. They Welcome You To Come Sit On His Lap… In Fact, There Is A Worn Off Area On His Lap From All The Sitters… He Is Awesome!

Image credits: Robin Borden Luberski

#4 Coffee Pot In Bedford PA. Built In 1925 As Part Of A Gas Station

Image credits: Lisa Johnson

#5 Cadillac Ranch Near Amarillo, Texas. I Shot This At Sunrise On Christmas Day, 2019

Image credits: Bush Bernard

#6 The Rock Garden’s Version Of The Colosseum, In Calhoun, GA

Image credits: Alan Vickers

#7 Just Went This Awesome House In York, PA

Image credits: Robin Borden Luberski

#8 Vashon Island, Washington

Image credits: Taylor Burroughs

#9 US Steel Edgar Thompson Plant 1329 Braddock Ave Braddock PA 15104

Image credits: Scott Snyder

#10 Worlds Largest Penny In Woodruff, Wisconsin

Image credits: Melissa Klement

#11 When I Had Visited Over 10 Years Ago, Little Did I Know That The Official Mascot Of Seattle & Its Pike Market Is The Pig. There Are Over 90 Pigs Scattered Around Town. Here’s A Few

Image credits: Mike Oleskie

#12 Jerome, Missouri On Rt. 66. Found This As We Were Out Driving Around

Image credits: Sherry Johnson

#13 Outside The Dr. Seuss Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts

Image credits: Emilie Vardaman

#14 Laclede’s Landing St Louis, Mo

Image credits: Marsha Valentine Banasiewicz

#15 A Giant Pencil On An Office Supply Store In Wytheville, VA

Image credits: Kevin Findlay

#16 Has Anyone Been To The Whale Statue In The 9th And 9th District In Salt Lake City, Utah. Very Colorful

Image credits: Linda Cook Schoss

#17 We Did A Scavenger Hunt For The 22 Goose Statues In Goose Creek Sc Today. Fun Time And We Found Them All!!!

Image credits: Tracy Hoffman Kratzer

#18 South Main Plaza Fountain In Mt Vernon, Oh. Some Of The Dogs Have Been Sponsored And Each One Has A Plaque That Tells What It Is. There’s One Cat And 3 Birds Also

Image credits: Sunny L. Skaggs

#19 Cruising Down I-70 In Colby, Kansas, You Pass By The Wheat Jesus Billboard. No Words … Just Jesus In A Wheat Field

Image credits: Scott Winikow

#20 Massive Ring At Tri State Pawn And Jewelry In Ashland, KY

Image credits: Brooke Tolber

#21 Ladybirds On The Side Of An Office Building In Milwaukee Wi

Image credits: Alan Vickers

#22 Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens… In The Heart Of Center City Philadelphia … A Virtual “Trash Made Into Art” “Garden”

A very unusual winding road of art created from discarded glass, tile and other unusual pieces…here is just a sample… it’s not a big place, but lots of punch packed in. Like something you’ve never seen before… definitely worth a look

Image credits: Robin Borden Luberski

#23 Worlds Tallest Barber Pole. Forest Grove, OR

Image credits: Rob Keller

#24 Giant Grasshopper, On The Enchanted Highway North Dakota. Near Gladstone Nd

Image credits: Fred Kleindenst

#25 Junkman Statue In Beuna Vista, Virginia

Image credits: Sherry Johnson

#26 A Decommissioned Military Plane On The Front Lawn Of The Don Q Inn

Image credits: Ronald Crouch is at Don Q Inn.

#27 Latrobe PA Home Of The Banana Split

Image credits: Ashley Hutchinson

#28 Wigwam Teepee Motel Along Route 66 In San Bernardino, CA

Image credits: Jaime Rubalcaba

#29 Arkansas Alligator Farm And Petting Zoo

Image credits: Shellie Berg

#30 W.C. Handy “Singing River” Sculpture In Florence, Alabama

Image credits: Monica Barker

#31 Giant Rocking Chair! Located On 385…between Hill City And Deadwood, SD!

Image credits: Kimberly Schoonveld Liston

#32 Chester, Illinois…. Home Of Popeye

Image credits: Sherry Johnson

#33 Seguin, TX. World’s Largest Pecan

Image credits: Wayne Wienke

#34 World’s Largest Buffalo ? Jamestown, North Dakota At The Frontier Village

Image credits: Dyana Watkins- Geddie

#35 Tornado Memorial In Belvidere, IL

Image credits: Chris Cammack

#36 Summerville, Sc Claims The World’s Largest Sweet Tea

Image credits: Crystal-Brian Maslow

#37 Largest Class Ring Citadel Class Ring In Charleston SC

Image credits: Tracy Hoffman Kratzer

#38 Get Whisked Away In Nashville, ? On Broadway And 21st Ave

Image credits: Tara Ash

#39 Spoonbridge In Minneapolis Minnesota. Am I The Only One That Calls This “The Mini Apple” Yes I Know It Is A Cherry

Image credits: Christel Schulz Rudlaff

#40 Mr Rogers Museum Latrobe, PA

Image credits: Ashley Hutchinson

#41 The Great Elephant Migration Traveling Exhibit In Newport, Rhode Island

Image credits: Erin Kochanek

#42 Tallest Thermometer! Record Was 134 Degrees! – Baker, CA

Image credits: Crystal Lynn Vargas

#43 Silly But Cute. Haha. Dice On Shawnee Mission Parkway In Shawnee, KS

Image credits: May Gibbons

#44 A Huge Basket, 20 Feet Tall, Filled To Overflowing With Large, Apples. Located On Longaberger Homestead Frazeysburg, OH

Image credits: Tony Reynolds

#45 Presidents Heads Park, Williamsburg, Virginia

Image credits: Jenn Mitchell Bennie

#46 We Didn’t Realize That We Were Driving Through The Longest Covered Bridge In America. One Side Is New Hampshire While The Other Side Is Vermont. Don’t Forget To Walk Your Horses Across

Image credits: Mark Wolongevicz

#47 Billed As The Most Photographed House In Maine. The Wedding Cake House In Kennebunk Maine And It’s Currently For Sale If You Have A Spare $2.65 Million Laying Around

Image credits: Mark York

#48 Dover Downs Speedway “The Monster Mile” Dover Delaware

Image credits: Elaine Radovich Cowan

#49 My. Airy N.C. “Mayberry”

Image credits: Norm Schaaf

#50 The Big Rubber Stamp With The Word “Free” On It Is A Creation Of Artist Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022), Who Sculpted Giant Versions Of Everyday Objects That Turn Up In Public Parks And On City Sidewalks. Located In Cleveland, OH

Image credits: Tony Reynolds

#51 40 Foot Tall Jack-A-Lope. Wall, SD. It Took 5 Chainsaw Artists 5 Weeks To Build

Image credits: Debbie Gilbert

#52 UFO House On Signal Mountain, TN

Image credits: Nate Chasteen

#53 Second Smallest Operating Post Office In The Us. Bridal Veil, Or

Image credits: Taylor Burroughs

#54 Shreveport, LA

Image credits: Jenna Dawn Shaff

#55 JC Penney House And Museum, As Well As The First (But Technically 3rd) JC Penney Store Down The Block. Kemmerer, WY

Image credits: Haylen LaTorre Radford

#56 3 Large Conch Shells In Key West

Image credits: Michelle Morgante

#57 The World’s Largest Kaleidoscope, Made Out Of An Old, Converted, Grain Silo, Is Located In Upstate NY, In A Small Town Named Mount Tremper, Which Is Near Woodstock, NY

It is 56 feet high, and opened in 1996. You walk into the Kaleidoscope, and can sit on the floor or lean against a wall to watch a colorful show accompanied by music. And of course, there’s a gift shop full of Kaleidoscopes. It’s “far out, man”! When I first visited the giant kaleidoscope, there wasn’t much around it. But now it is part of a complex. There are stores and there’s a resort hotel & spa surrounding the kaleidoscope

Image credits: Barbara Greenwald Issak

#58 Prada Marfa Is A Permanent Sculptural Art Installation By Artists Elmgreen & Dragset, Located Along U.S. Route 90 In Jeff Davis County, Texas, United States, 1.4 Miles (2.3 Km) Northwest Of Valentine, And About 26 Miles (42 Km) Northwest Of Marfa

Image credits: Roscoe Fairbanks

#59 Mr. Trash Wheel Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD

Image credits: Joe Pascullo

#60 El Paso TX, A Door For Very Big People

Image credits: Alan Vickers

#61 Ha Ha Tonka Ruins In Camdenton, Missouri

Image credits: Sherry Johnson

#62 Intersection Of Montana Rte 83 And Montana Rte 200

Image credits: Chester McQuillen

#63 S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden Of Eden Location: Lucas, Kansas – Home Of The “2nd Best Small Town Art Scene!” Est. 1907

S.P Dinsmoor started building the cabin home in 1904 at 64 yrs young, intending it to be a residence and a source of income from tourism.
The cabin is made to look like a log cabin, but is entirely constructed of rock and cement, as are the yard sculptures. Inside the cabin, no two windows or doors are alike. In the garden, there are 15 cement trees from 30 to 40 feet tall. There are 150 life size cement and stone sculptures in the garden

Image credits: Alaina Robin

#64 Miniature Taco Bell Reproduction In San Diego

Image credits: Jen Boynton

#65 I Went To The Enchanted Forest In Turner, Oregon, In June. Here Are A Few Of The Pictures I Took. They Have A Small Alpine Roller Coaster, A Dark Ride, Several Kiddie Rides, A Fountain Show And Other Neat Attractions

Image credits: Allen Sandquist

#66 If You Schlepped All Of The Way To Mora, MN To See The World’s Largest Dala Horse, You Might As Well Head Out 17 Minutes West To Ogilvie And Say Hello To Rusty The Dragon

He’s on private property so be respectful of parking but he’s definitely worth a stop. They say he can occasionally be talked into breathing fire!

Image credits: Bryan Thao Worra

#67 Transformer Displays In The Wisconsin Dells

These are actually outside of the Top Secret Upside Down White House (which is an absolute JOKE of an attraction) but these displays are free in the parking lot!
Two huge displays – Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, and some other random transformers that are a bit smaller

Image credits: Kaitlin M Costello

#68 Dinosaur State Park, Glen Rose, Texas. These Dinos Were Originally Made For The 1964 Worlds Fair In NYC. Which I Attended!

Image credits: Bob Stout

#69 Soloman’s Castle Near Arcadia FL

Image credits: Teresa Bush Teagardin

#70 A Few Photos Of The Enchanted Highway In Regent Nd

Image credits: Tara Oakley

#71 A Giant Pyramid On The Border Of Arkansas And Tennessee As You Are Crossing The Bridge Into Memphis. It’s A Bass Pro Shop!!!! ? And You Can Go Up To The Top

Image credits: Meredith Kateri

#72 Worlds Tallest Filing Cabinet. Located In Burlington, Vt

Image credits: Kristy Rippey

#73 The Big Fish Supper Club In Bena, Minnesota

Image credits: Kathy Wieskamp Haake

#74 Peggy Sue‘S Diner-Saur Park, Yermo CA

Image credits: Steffen Anton

#75 Salem Sue – Worlds Largesr Holstein Cow – New Salem, North Dakota

Image credits: Peggy Burger Schlosser

#76 Underground Kayaking In Red River Gorge, Ky

Image credits: Shannon Sims Grogan

#77 The Ever So Popular Paul Bunyan And His Blue Ox Off Highway 101 In Klamath, California

Image credits: Rhonda Wollmuth Tucker

#78 Random Aliens Alongside The Road In Mount Gilead, Ohio

Image credits: Katherine Burnside

#79 Montrose, SD

Image credits: Judy Danielson

#80 Geographic Center Of North America In Rugby, Nd

Image credits: Wayne Wienke

#81 Paul Bunyan’s Brother… Earl Bunyan! Located In New Town, North Dakota

Image credits: Kimberly Schoonveld Liston

#82 Peter “Wolf” Toth Carving In Las Cruces, N.m. Part Of The “Trail Of The Whispering Giants” He Did In The 70’s, Put One In Every State

Image credits: Bob Stout

#83 Dog Bark Park In Cottonwood, Idaho

My in-laws just got back from a trip to this unique roadside attraction, which is owned by my father-in-law’s cousin Frances and husband Dennis. Its creator, Dennis Sullivan, is a former builder and when he changed careers, became an expert chainsaw carver. We have a chainsaw carving from him of our dog Shelby. The large dog, Sweet Willy, accommodates a family of 4. The head is a loft where kids can stay on bunks and a queen size bed is in the belly of the dog. The full size bath is in (where else?) the tail. My in-laws spent a couple nights in the dog. They’re about to stop operating this as an inn and just leave it open as a roadside attraction