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Quick Stops & Quirky Stops
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items I have always liked quirky things and after my husband and I sold our business we spent several years living in a motorhome traveling around the United States often times making quick stops and quirky things we would see as we traveled. All of this l...
You used to be able to see this from I90. Present day, you no longer can. Trees have gotten bigger & buildings sprang up. The Jolly Green Giant is 55 1/2' tall & he wears a size 78 shoe. Now with everything grown up around him he is more ...
Green Giant, Blue Earth, Minnesota
Which way does the water flow where you are at?
Missouri-Mississippi Divide - Arcadia, Iowa
Bryant Pond, Maine - folks in Bryant Pond were the last ones in the US to give up their hand cranked telephones
The World's Largest Telephone - Bryant Pond, Maine
Wapakoneta native Jim Bowser has created a unique backyard. Over the years he has designed a Stonehenge-like assemblage of massive glacial boulders, architectural artifacts, and quirky decorative elements. His Temple of Tolerance stands 20 feet hig...
Temple of Tolerance - Wapakoneta, Ohio
Fast Corporation manufactures fiberglass statues, roadside attractions, themed water slides & larger than life creations of all kinds. After a job, the company keeps the mold & retires them to the graveyard field. The operators of FAST welco...
FAST Fiberglass Mold Graveyard - Sparta, Wisconsin
Midway USA, Kinsley, Kansas -Kinsley earned the name "Midway USA" by being exactly 1,561 from San Francisco to the west and New York to the east. Kinsley earned that moniker in 1939 when it was featured on the Saturday Evening Post cover showing two...
Midway USA, Kinsley, Kansas
Mount Carmel Massacre Site, Waco, Texas - for 51 days federal agents clashed with David Koresh & the Branch Davidians. The standoff ended on April 21, 1993 with a raid & a fire that killed 80. It's remembered as one of the darkest chapters ...
Mount Caramel Massacre Site, Waco, Texas
This Texas-size longhorn is immortalized on the front lawn of the Live Oak County Courthouse. "Geronimo" was the pride of the George West ranch, with horns nearly 10 feet across, when he died in 1927. He was stuffed & put on display on the court...
Day Trips: Geronimo the Longhorn, George West, Texas
Ghost lights, mystery lights… call them what you want, but the Marfa Lights, flickering beneath the Chinati Mountains, have been capturing travelers’ imaginations for over a century. On many nights, the mystery seems to be whether you're merely seein...
Marfa Lights Viewing Area - Marfa, Texas
Marfa Prada is a permanently installed sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragster, situated 1.4 miles North West of Valentine, TX, just off of US Highway 90 & about 26 miles North West of Marfa. The sculpture was inaugurated on 10/1/05. The artists c...
Prada Marfa, Marfa, Texas
Recycled Roadrunner, Las Cruces, New Mexico - the giant Recycled Roadrunner - 20 ft tall & 40 ft long - has been an icon of Las Cruces, NM, ever since artist Olin Call built it in 1993. Back then it stood at the city landfill, & was made exc...
Recycled Roadrunner Statue - Las Cruces, New Mexico
Goldwell Open Air Museum, just outside Rhyolite, NV - a group of prominent Belgian artists, led by the late Albert Szukalski, created a self-described art situation consisting of 7 outdoor sculptures that are colossal not only in their size, but thei...
Goldwell Open Air Museum - Rhyolite, Nevada
Quirky or creepy? Not a fan of clowns, so after stopping here and talking with the manager we decided to find a different place to stay. Adding to the creepiness of this place, right next door is the old Tonopah Cemetery.
The Clown Motel - Tonopah, Nevada
Among the 5,000 grave markers for Confederate soldiers in the Soldier’s Rest section of Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi, one pays tribute to Old Douglas, the camel of the 43rd Mississippi infantry, Company A, nicknamed “The Camel Regime...
Old Douglas, Vicksburg, Mississippi
Nutty Narrows Bridge is a squirrel bridge in Longview, WA. It has the tittle of the "World's Narrowest Bridge" and also the "World's Narrowest Animal Crossing." The Nutty Narrows Bridge was built in 1963 by a local builder, the late Amos Peters, to ...
Nutty Narrows Bridge - Longview, Washingon
A unique & eclectic yard art exhibition. It all began around 1980 when artists Dick Elliott & Jane Orleman started creating art pieces to jazz up the outside of their house, which was boarded up & dilspitated when they purchased it a cou...
Dick & Jane's Spot - Ellensburg, Washington
Giant Reproduction of Van Gogh's Three Sunflowers in a Vase, Goodland, KS
The Big Easel - Giant Van Gogh Painting - Goodland, Kansas
Liggitt was an american folk artist who displayed his sculptures along US Route 400 in Mullinville. There are hundreds of them, 3 rows deep, made from road signs, car parts, farm equipment and any number of things that could be welded together. Man...
MT Liggitt Political Art - Mullinville, Kansas
Entirely made of recycled materials with more than 100,000 beer & soda cans, hubcaps, screen doors, wooden windows, bicycle reflectors & more, this folk art castle was built by Dominic "Cano" Espinoza, a Native American Vietnam vet. Inspired...
Cano's Castle - Antonio, Colorado
For flying saucer buffs check this place out. The UFO Watchtower is an observation platform, campground & gift shop. The Watchtower, which has a 360-degree view of the Sand Luis Valley was created by Judy Messoline in 2000 to capitalize on the ...
UFO Watchtower - Hooper, Colorado
This spot on route US-163 in Utah between Mexican Hut and the Monument Valley became famous after the movie Forest Gump. This is the spot where in the movie Forest decided to stop running. Later it was named Forest Gump Point.
Forrest Gump Point - Medicine Hat, Utah
Fromme-Birney "Round Barn", Mullinville, KS - built in 1912 to house 28 draft horses at an estimated cost of $8,000. Soon after construction, the tractor replaced horses and the barn was obsolete. Not actually round, but 16 sided the barn stands 50...
Fromme-Birney Round Barn, Mullinville, Kansas
Built in 1859-61 by Smith Daniell who only lived in the large mansion for a few weeks before he died. The Windsor plantation once sprawled over 2,600 acres. Legend says that from a roof observatory, Mark Twain watched the Mississippi River in the dis...
Windsor Ruins, Port Gibson, Mississippi
Built in 1966 in memory of Floyd & Doris Mahanay. 14 stories high. Stop by if you are near. They do play the bells daily
Mahoney Memorial Bell Tower Carillon, Jefferson, Iowa