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
The Gum Wall is a colourful and gloriously sticky Seattle landmark tucked in Post Alley beneath Pike Place Market where visitors have added chewing gum since the early 1990s.
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The Gum Wall is a colourful and gloriously sticky Seattle landmark tucked in Post Alley beneath Pike Place Market where visitors have added chewing gum since the early 1990s.
Washington: Seattle – Giant Red Popsicles
A 17-foot red twin popsicle sculpture by Catherine Mayer stands at Fourth and Blanchard in Seattle's Belltown neighbourhood as a beloved piece of quirky public art.
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 near Regent in North Dakota is a 32-mile open-air gallery of giant scrap metal sculptures stretching across the Great Plains — a breathtaking and wholly unexpected artistic achievement that transforms a quiet rural drive into a legendary road trip experience.
South Dakota: Geographic Centre of the Nation
Belle Fourche in South Dakota is officially recognised as the Geographic Centre of the Nation — the precise point equidistant from all outer boundaries of the United States including Alaska and Hawaii — marked by a dedicated monument welcoming curious visitors year-round.
North Dakota: Jamestown – World’s Largest Buffalo
Jamestown North Dakota is home to the World's Largest Buffalo — a towering 26-foot concrete icon nicknamed Dakota Thunder standing sentinel above the National Buffalo Museum and a living herd on the windswept Northern Plains.
Minnesota: Big Ole – America’s Biggest Viking
Big Ole is a towering 28-foot fibreglass Viking statue in Alexandria Minnesota that has stood as a beloved roadside landmark since 1965 celebrating the region's Scandinavian heritage and the legendary Kensington Runestone discovery.
North Dakota: World’s Largest Sandhill Crane
Standing nearly 40 feet tall in Steele North Dakota the World's Largest Sandhill Crane is a magnificent roadside sculpture honouring the spectacular bird migrations that sweep across the Great Plains each spring and autumn drawing travellers from across the country.
Minnesota: Fergus Falls – Largest Otter & Giant Goose
Fergus Falls in Minnesota is home to two extraordinary roadside giants — the world's largest otter and a towering Canada goose — making it an unmissable stop for Midwest road-trippers and quirky attraction lovers alike.
Minnesota: Rothsay – A Giant Greater Prairie Chicken
Rothsay in western Minnesota is home to a magnificent giant fibreglass Greater Prairie Chicken — a beloved roadside landmark celebrating the town's proud status as the Prairie Chicken Capital of Minnesota and honouring the native bird's rich local heritage.
North Dakota: New Salem – World’s largest Holstein cow
Salem Sue — the world's largest Holstein cow — stands 38 feet tall on a hilltop in New Salem North Dakota celebrating the region's dairy farming legacy and drawing road-trippers from across the country to this iconic prairie landmark.
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.
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.