Folks Share Quirky “Roadside America” Places You Can’t Find In Travel Guides, Here Are 30 Of The Best

This is great! So cute. I'm guessing people sponsor the individual statues in the name of pets they've lost. What an awesome memorial.

I shouldn't beak so nosy but I waddle know if you had a honking good time winging it - was it all quacked up to be? My sincerest apolo-geese for my fowl sense of humor

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” - Dr Seuss

At the beginning of the show, my sisters, cousins and I would try to guess which color cardigan sweater he was going to put on…

Do they sell any coffee?

This looks cool! There are a huge number of caves in Kentucky.

Oscar, the Bird King - one of 6 giant Trolls constructed in the Pacific NW by Thomas Dambo, renowned recycle artist.

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein

We've been there and it's totally worth the stop! So much to see and it's only a couple miles off I-75.

Except in the US we call the ladybugs.

Classic. Even though the condition of the cars get worse. I was there in 2007 and 2010. Still ok, but last year my sister went. It's more paint than cars now....still cool though if you catch a moment with few visitors.

Does an old lady live there?

Caucasian, too

I visited Seattle (from UK) for my honeymoon 23 years ago. We have a great time hunting out all the pigs, but didn't get to see them all.

Certainly has my stamp of approval…

Colors ruin the true beauty of this whale

This is another side trip that's worth seeing. The pheasants and 'fisherman's dream' were our faves. This was the best part of the whole trip to ND and we discovered it last minute!

Boots are a sole-ution to toe-tally heel any fashion emergency...

Anybody know how big this is?

Once an iconic road side stopping place. Sadly it fell on hard times like the rest of our hometown

"The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government..." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

I've visited this ..it was SO WINDY there!!!

A word processor with a manual delete device.

Oh, wow, we have one of these in Fort Lauderdale, FL, in the grass outside a parking lot across the street from the beach! (just Googled it up, didn't know it was a big deal) We filled his mouth with bright yellow (range) golf balls one drunken night during high school (didn't damage it, at least I hope - didn't intend to, again didn't know it was a known project - just a silly prank after we got kicked off the beach for driving balls into the ocean at night; again, forgive me, dumb kids we were - they stayed there for weeks!)

I've been here. It's a lovely mural. Beautifully done. This is just down the street from Floyd's barber shop and Opies candy store on the main street.

Dodgeville, WI

How is it technically the third? EDIT: Never mind, figured it out. For others confused: The first was the original location, the second was, well, the second store they opened, and this one was built as the designated 'mother store' when they started to expand as a national chain.

I tried to get a room here, it was totally booked. How cool to spend a night in the belly of a beagle?!

it has literally removed tons of trash from the inner harbor...solar-powered goodness!

Does 'walk your horses' mean you have to get off and lead them, or that you can't canter or gallop?

I thought Stephen King's house was the most photographed in Maine.

This looks cool!

I thought a barber's pole was just red and white: Red to symbolise that they also used to do surgery.

Back in the day there was a little place in Newport, OR like this called the Zig Zag Zoo. It was nowhere near this impressive though!

No smoking allowed, obviously.

I've been here and experienced the BEST window washing from a female attendant at the gas station near the train station (what a weird thing to remember). Not a streak on the windshield afterwards. I asked to watch her technique. She was so nice!

Latrobe, home of Mr. Rogers! And the banana split, too!

Reminds me of that hook-clawed Godzilla monster "Gigan"

I think of him coming alive in town in IT 😳

Klaatu barada nikto!

There’s something fishy going on here

Let the good times roll!

There is also a big blue chicken in this park.

The tiniest one is in the Everglades in Florida.

Sponsored by Sinclair, I presume?

All hail the magic conch!!!

Meh, skip this and go see some Mason-Dixon Markers or the WWII Observation Towers.

The real Jackalopes are wild rabbits that have been infected with the "Shope Papilloma virus". It's related to the human Papilloma virus, and it causes hard dark warts on the rabbits face. The mythical Jackalopes are horned rabbits ready to take on the coyote that's chasing him!

Imagine meditating in there 😍

he STRONK

That's 56.67C! In my own personal temperature scale, it's 'oh my goodness! That blinkin' hot!

Wisconsin also has the world's largest indoor carousel and the world's largest accordion museum.

Don’t think it will stir up any trouble…

LOL, this town is where my grandparents lived. It's a seriously depressing little place. I dreaded every time we had to go visit them because it's one of the most boring locations on Earth.

So random 😆

I've been to this cow. You're driving on I-94 (I'ts north of I-90) and you see this huge friggin cow on a hill top- out in the middle on nowhere. The paint is usually worn off of the cow tits from people touching it. https://www.google.com/maps/@46.8614491,-101.4113879,3a,60y,229.31h,92.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_lb4mmiAqWr7sAAnSpgCJA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

Longaberger makes wonderful baskets.

Built out of old printing press sheets. Great way to upcycle.

I have been there it is a house a That burnt in 1942 But the State of Missouri bought it an turned it into a state park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha_Ha_Tonka_State_Park

Talk about making an entrance…

Looks like it's a Taco Bell for birds.

Been to that one. Really in the middle of nowhere. Even has some shoes on display.