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This is a list of verifiable roadside attractions. Items can claim to be the largest, longest, highest, or anything that makes them notable.

Asia

Three-headed elephant of Erawan Museum, Thailand

Thailand

• Great Buddha of Thailand

Europe

England

Worlds largest Disco ball ^[1]

France

• Woinic the World's Largest Boar, autoroute A34 near Saulces-aux-Tournelles, France. Coordinates:49°35?39?N 4°30?10?E / 49.59417°N 4.50278°E / 49.59417; 4.50278 ^[2]

Germany

The Netherlands

• World's Largest Egg, (6m x 4m) Restaurant Het Ei van Barneveld, Barneveld, The Netherlands ^{[3][unreliable source?][]}

North America

Canada

Worlds largest Axe ^[4]

Worlds largest Lobster.^[5]

Worlds largest Dinosaur ^[6]

Worlds largest Tomahawk ^[7]

Worlds largest Tepee ^[8]

United States of America

Built in 1924, The Bottle, also known as the Nehi Inn, was one of the first "world's largest" roadside attractions. Despite the attraction itself being destroyed by fire in 1933, the community of The Bottle, Alabama still bears the name of its famous attraction.

Alabama

California

• World's tallest thermometer, Baker, California, USA

Colorado

Georgia

World's Largest Chicken, Marietta, Georgia, USA

Illinois

• World's Largest Ketchup Bottle, Collinsville, Illinois, USA

"Old Ben"

Idaho

Worlds largest Beagle ^[9]

Indiana

Iowa

• World's Largest Truck Stop, Walcott

Kansas

• World's Largest Ball of Twine, Cawker City, Kansas, USA
• World's Largest Collection of World's Smallest Versions of World's Largest..., Lucas, Kansas^{[10][unreliable source?]}

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

• World's Largest Revolving and Rotating Globe,^{[11][not in citation given]}Yarmouth, Maine, USA

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

• World's largest model tire, Allen Park, Michigan, US^[12]
• World's Largest Cherry Pie,^[13]Traverse City, Michigan, US^[14]
• Former World's Largest Cherry Pie, Charleviox, Michigan^{[15][unreliable source?]}
• World's Largest Picnic Table, Olive, Michigan^{[16][17][unreliable source?]}
• World's Largest Musical Fountain, Grand Haven, Michigan

• World's Largest Working Rifle, Ishpeming, Michigan^{[18][unreliable source?]}
• World's Largest Running Chain Saw, Ishpeming, Michigan^{[19][unreliable source?]}
• World's Largest Weathervane, Montague, Michigan^[20]
• World's Largest Crucifix, Indian River, Michigan^{[21][unreliable source?]}
• World's Largest Lugnut, Lansing, Michigan^{[22][unreliable source?]}
• World's Largest Indian, Ironwood, Michigan^{[23][unreliable source?]}

North Saint Paul, MN

Rockville, MN

Minnesota

The Largest Fork, standing 35' and weighing 11 tons in Springfield, Missouri.

Missouri

Worlds largest Shuttlecock

Montana

Nebraska

New Mexico

• World's Largest Pistachio, Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA^{[24][dead link]}

Lucy the Elephant, Margate, NJ

New Jersey

• World's Largest Water Tower, Union, NJ, USA (contested)
• Lucy the Elephant, Margate, NJ USA^[25]

New York

North Carolina

• World's Largest Strawberry, Ellerbe, NC, USA^[26]
• World's Largest Bureau.^[27]

North Dakota

World's Largest Buffalo, Jamestown, ND, USA

World's largest basket, Newark, OH

Ohio

• World's Largest Cuckoo Clock, Sugarcreek, Ohio^[28]

Oklahoma

Oregon

• World's Largest Caveman, Grants Pass^[29]
• World's Largest Corn Dog, Rockaway Beach Oregon --30-foot Pronto Pup^[30]

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

• World's largest bug, Providence, Rhode Island, USA^{[31][unreliable source?]}

South Carolina

South Dakota

• World's Largest Drug Store - Wall Drug, Wall^[]
• World's Largest Collection of Reptiles - Reptile Gardens, Rapid City, South Dakota

Texas

Utah

• World's Largest Fishing Fly (non functional) - Logan^[32]
  

  Hugo's, Bealeton, Virginia - World's Largest roadside rollerskate

Virginia

Washington

• World's Largest Cowboy Hat & Boots, Seattle

Washington DC

Worlds largest typewriter eraser ^[33]

West Virginia

• World's Largest Teapot, Chester
  

  The World's Largest Musky, at the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame; Hayward, WI.

Wisconsin

• World's Tallest Grandfather Clock, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, USA

Worlds Largest Penny ^[34]

Wyoming

South America

Brazil

Oceania

Australia

Worlds Largest Sheep ^[35]

Worlds largest pineapple ^[36]

See also

• Australia's big things
• Giants of the Prairies
• New Zealand's big things
• List of gravity hills

References