Roadside attractions Roadside attractions The Big Chicken is a local landmark in Marietta, Georgia, built at the city's biggest intersection of Cobb Parkway ( US 41) and Roswell Road (Ga. 120) - - exact address 12 Cobb Pkwy N, Marietta GA 30062. The eyes on the structure spin around in a circle while both parts of the beak move up and down. ...more on Wikipedia about "Big Chicken"
Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cadillac Ranch"
Casa de Fruta is a roadside attraction located in the near Gilroy, California in the Pacheco Valley of Northern California. Casa de Fruta beginings started out as an orchard by Italian immigrants in 1908. Three teenaged grand-nephews of the first owner of the orchard, started to sell cherries on a roadside stand in 1943 and eventually sold other fruits. In 1967 the remaining two grand-nephews opened restaurants, gas stations, a children's playground, and gift-shops. ...more on Wikipedia about "Casa de Fruta"
The Coral Castle is a mysterious stone structure created by the Latvian- American eccentric, Edward Leedskalnin, in Homestead, Florida. The structure is comprised of numerous megalithic stones each weighing several tons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coral Castle"
The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota is a popular tourist destination, visited by over 500,000 people each year. It consists of a building that is decorated with murals and designs made from corn and other grains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corn Palace"
Dinny the Dinosaur is the name given to a world famous, 150-ton, larger than life-sized sculpture of a brontosaurus located in Cabazon, California and visible to the immediate north of Interstate 10. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dinny the Dinosaur"
Dinosaur Gardens Prehistorical Zoo is an offbeat tourist attraction located in Ossineke, Michigan. Built on a forty acre tract of drained swampland, visitors to the “zoo” encounter several dozen homemade sculptures of dinosaurs, prehistoric birds, prehistoric mammals, and cavemen, many of which are arranged to form life-like scenes. The attraction, started by folk artist Paul N. Domke in the 1930s, also boasts a gift shop and a dinosaur-themed miniature golf course. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dinosaur Gardens Prehistorical Zoo"
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The Electric Brae is a stretch of road in Ayrshire, Scotland where cars appear to be drawn uphill by some mysterious attraction. The Lowland Scots word brae means a hill-slope or brow (with which it is cognate), and the "electric" name was given when electricity was a new technology associated with strange forces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electric Brae"
The Evil Clown of Middletown is a large outdoor sign on Route 35 in Middletown Township, New Jersey advertising a Spirits Liquor Store. It was originally constructed in 1956 to advertise a Food Circus grocery store. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evil Clown of Middletown"
Forestiere Underground Gardens located at 5021 W. Shaw Avenue in Fresno, California are an unusual manmade creation built by Baldasare Forestiere, an immigrant from Sicily over a period of 40 years from 1906 to until his death in 1946. The gardens, while subterranean, do have many skylights and catchbasins for water. There are a wide variety of hybrids and grafted trees, and the underground temperature helps prevent against frost. It is still operated by members of the Forestiere family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forestiere Underground Gardens"
A gravity hill (also known as a gravity road) is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces the optical illusion that a very slight downhill slope is in fact an uphill slope. Thus, a car left out of gear will appear to be rolling uphill. There are hundreds of known gravity hill locations around the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gravity hill"
Herman the German is the local name for a statue erected in the German-founded community of New Ulm, Minnesota. The statue, officialy named "Hermann monument", arrived in New Ulm in 1890 and was dedicated in 1897. This statue commemmorates the Germanic victory over the Romans at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a symbol of German patriotism and pride. In 1875, the similar Hermannsdenkmal, a statue paid for largely out of private funds, was completed in Detmold to commemorate the battle. The statue is named for the victorious German general Arminius, whose name is germanicized to Herman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Herman the German"
The House on the Rock is a complex of architecturally unique rooms, streets, gardens and shops built mostly by Alex Jordan, Jr. The "house" itself was begun in the 1940s atop a column of rock that stands in a field in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and additions were made to the structure for several decades afterward. The complex now features "The Streets of Yesterday", a recreation of a turn-of-the-century American town; "The Heritage of the Sea", featuring nautical exhibits and a larger-than-life model of a fight between a blue whale and a giant squid; "The Music of Yesterday", a huge collection of automatic music machines; and the world's largest working carousel, among other attractions. During the winter, the attraction features a Christmas theme, with decorations and a large collection of Santa figures. ...more on Wikipedia about "House on the Rock"
The Jolly Green Giant is a symbol of the Green Giant food company of the United States, appearing as a smiling green-skinned giant wearing a tunic, wreath and boots made of leaves. He was usually accompanied by "Sprout", a normal-sized person. The Giant first appeared in advertisements in 1928; the name originally came from a variety of unusually large pea called the "Green Giant" that the company canned and sold. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jolly Green Giant" Be happy with http://www.shortopedia.com
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped architectural folly constructed of wood and tin sheeting in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, two miles (3.2 km) south of Atlantic City, in an effort to sell real estate and attract tourism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lucy the Elephant"
The Oregon Vortex is a roadside attraction in Gold Hill, Oregon, notable for its presumed paranormal properties, which are caused by a fascinating and convincing optical illusion of the gravity hill type. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oregon Vortex"
The Peachoid is the name of a very large water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina. The water tower holds one million gallons of water and is located by interstate I-85. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peachoid"
Pioneer Village is a museum and tourist attraction along U.S. Highway 6 in Minden, Nebraska. The museum, a complex of 28 buildings with a total collection of 50,000 items, opened in 1953. Pioneer Village was founded by Harold Warp, a Chicago manufacturer from Minden. The museum has a large collection of items from 1830 to the present, including frontier buildings, early cars and airplanes, tractors and other farm implements and an art collection. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pioneer Village (Nebraska)"
A roadside attraction is a feature along the side of a road, that is frequently advertised with billboards to attract tourists. In general, these are places one might stop on the way to somewhere else, rather than being a final or primary destination in and of themselves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roadside attraction"
Rock City is a roadside attraction near Chattanooga, Tennessee on Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, located near Ruby Falls. It is well-known for the many barn roofs throughout the southeast United States that have the slogan "See Rock City" painted on their roofs. In total, over 900 barn roofs in nineteen states were painted by Clark Byers for Rock City. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rock City"
Sea Shell City is a decades-old souvenir shop in the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan, just outside of Cheboygan. This store sells a lot of sea shells and souvenirs that theme Mackinac and surrounding districts. The billboard for this store on I-75 south of the US-31 junction says "rarest oddities of Davy Jones' oldies". ...more on Wikipedia about "Sea Shell City"
Shields Date Gardens is a historic date orchard and tourist attraction in Indio, California, USA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shields Date Gardens"
South of the Border is a rest stop and roadside attraction on Interstate 95 and US 301 near Dillon, South Carolina, so named because it is south of the border with North Carolina. The rest area features not only restaurants, gas stations and a motel, but also a small amusement park, shopping (including adult entertainment at its "Dirty Old Man" shop), and, famously, fireworks. Its mascot is Pedro, an extravagantly stereotypical Mexican. It is advertised by hundreds of billboards along surrounding highways. Well-known landmarks in the area, the irreverent signs feature Pedro, wearing a sombrero and poncho, counting down the number of miles to South of the Border. ...more on Wikipedia about "South Of The Border (attraction)"
Spook Hill (Florida) is a gravity hill, an optical illusion where cars appear to roll uphill. Tourists place their cars in neutral, and watch as they appear to roll up the hill. The hill is located in Lake Wales. There are numerous spots around the world where this occurs—many of them are tourist attractions—and usually in areas where the horizon is obscured or is not level. ...more on Wikipedia about "Spook Hill (Florida)"
The Big Texan Steak Ranch is a steakhouse restaurant and motel located in Amarillo, Texas, United States which opened off of Route 66 in 1960 and moved to its present location on Interstate 40 in 1970. Fire gutted the west wing of the restaurant in 1976, destroying $100,000 in antiques, but in 1977 it was reopened as a bigger facility. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Big Texan Steak Ranch"
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