Denmark: Copenhagen – Jens Olsen’s World Clock
Located in New Salem, North Dakota, Salem Sue stands a mighty 38 feet (12 m) high and 50 feet (15 m) long and can be viewed from several miles around. (Roadside Attraction / USA / United States)
Washington: Seattle – The Gum Wall
Seattle Gum Wall is covered in thousands of pieces of chewing gum that have been placed on the side of the Post Alley's Market Theater (now Unexpected Productions) since the early 1990s.
Washington: Seattle – Giant Red Popsicles
“The Red Popsicle” by Catherine Mayer is one of the most recent additions to Martin Selig’s art collection. Acquired in 2011, and it is now located at Fourth and Blanchard.
North York: Albany – The last remaining giant Nipper
Located in New Salem, North Dakota, Salem Sue stands a mighty 38 feet (12 m) high and 50 feet (15 m) long and can be viewed from several miles around. (Roadside Attraction / USA / United States)
North Dakota: Regent – The Enchanted Highway
The Enchanted Highway, is a 31 mile stretch of highway designed to draw in tourists to the town of Regent. It features some of the world’s largest scrap metal sculptures.
South Dakota: Geographic Centre of the Nation
With the addition of Alaska and Hawaii to the Union, the geographic centre of the United States moved from Lebanon in Kansas to a point on the borders of South Dakota/Wyoming/Montana. The nearest community to this point is the small town of Belle Fourche (some 20 miles away) where there is a memorial to the commemorate the nearby geographic marker.
North Dakota: Jamestown – World’s Largest Buffalo
As you drive along I-94 across North Dakota it is difficult to miss the giant statue of a buffalo that sits on a hill above the highway. This is apparently the World's largest buffalo/bison statue, standing at 26 feet tall and 40 feet long and weighing a mighty 60 tons.
Minnesota: Big Ole – America’s Biggest Viking
Big Ole, located in the small town of Alexandria, Minnesota, is the purportedly the World's largest Viking. Ole was built in 1965 as an exhibit for the New York World's Fair. When completed Ole stood 28 feet tall with the words, "Alexandria, Birthplace of America" emblazoned on his shield.
North Dakota: World’s Largest Sandhill Crane
"Sandy", the 40ft high statue of the Sandhill Crane at Steele, North Dakota stands in a little park adjacent to the Cobblestone Inn. This monument is a celebration of this elegant bird that is found on the plains, in fields and wetlands across the United States.
Minnesota: Fergus Falls – Largest Otter & Giant Goose
Many years ago on a family road trip across the USA, I had set out in search of Otto, the world's largest otter, located in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. This detour almost resulted in the end of our marriage. Fast-forward 12 years, armed with Google and smartphones we successfully located Otto!
Minnesota: Rothsay – A Giant Greater Prairie Chicken
One of my quirky interests, as I have travelled around the United States, is to try and see as many "roadside" attractions as I can. Many of these are next to highways, but occasionally we have had to head off the beaten track. During a road trip that passed through Minnesota along I-94, we were lucky to come across one such attraction in the city of Rothsay, the Prairie Chicken capital of Minnesota
North Dakota: New Salem – World’s largest Holstein cow
Located in New Salem, North Dakota, Salem Sue stands a mighty 38 feet (12 m) high and 50 feet (15 m) long and can be viewed from several miles around. (Roadside Attraction / USA / United States)
Minnesota: Pelican Pete the worlds largest pelican
Pelican Pete is a 15.5-foot concrete pelican sculpture built in 1957 in downtown Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, recognised as the world's largest pelican and a cherished roadside landmark drawing visitors from across North America.
Nebraska: Alliance – Car Henge art installation
Carhenge is a full-scale Stonehenge replica made from 38 vintage cars, rising from the Nebraska plains near Alliance and offering visitors a free, year-round encounter with one of America's most inventive and joyfully eccentric roadside art installations.
USA: South Dakota, Mitchell – Corn Palace
The Mitchell Corn Palace is the world's only corn-decorated building, a free-admission folk-art landmark in Mitchell, South Dakota, that draws over 500,000 visitors each year with its dazzling annual murals, Moorish-inspired architecture, and rich agricultural heritage dating back to 1892.
USA: South Dakota, Wall – Wall Drug Store
Wall Drug Store in Wall, South Dakota, is a legendary roadside attraction that has evolved from a Depression-era pharmacy into a vast, family-friendly complex of shops, restaurants, galleries, and larger-than-life sculptures, welcoming over two million visitors annually with the promise of free ice water.
USA: Wisconsin, Sumpter – Dr. Evermor’s Sculpture Park
Dr Evermor's Sculpture Park in Sumpter, Wisconsin, is a free, open-air collection of monumental scrap metal sculptures — including the colossal Forevertron — created over decades by the visionary outsider artist Tom Every, whose alter ego, the fictional Victorian inventor Dr Evermor, imagined a machine to launch himself into the heavens on a magnetic force beam.