A Day in Wakarusa, Indiana: RV Factory Tours & Jumbo Jelly Beans
Tours at Nexus and Thor plus a stop at the Wakarusa Dime Store for jumbo jelly beans made this small Indiana town a memorable road trip stop.
How We Started Chasing the World’s Largest Roadside Attractions
Our Favorite Weird Stops Just here for the big stuff? Jump to a state: Arkansas | Missouri | North Carolina | Oklahoma | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas Here’s what had happened… We didn’t start out chasing the world’s largest roadside attractions. It sort of attached itself to us while we were living on …
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Peachoid Gaffney SC: The World’s Largest Peach and the Apple Watch Incident
We drove past the Peachoid for two years. Not on purpose. It just kept happening — we’d be passing through Gaffney, South Carolina on the way to somewhere else, and there it would be. The Peachoid Gaffney SC — a giant peach-shaped water tower that, as the internet has widely noted, also looks exactly like …
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Metalmorphosis Charlotte NC: The Second Try and the Spinning Head
This guy’s head spins around. That’s the whole pitch for Metalmorphosis Charlotte NC… That’s why we drove 45 minutes from Shelby, North Carolina, again. Hoping the thing was actually working this time. Because here’s the thing — we’d been to Metalmorphosis before. Two years ago, same bus, same Zach madness, completely different experience. It was …
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Penguin Drive-In Charlotte NC: The Half-Jukebox Situation and the Missing DDD Magic
We weren’t looking for a Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives location. We were looking for a giant freestanding jukebox. That’s how it usually goes with us — we’re chasing something weird, and we stumble into something weirder. The Penguin Drive-In Charlotte NC had been on our radar because the internet told us there was a massive freestanding …
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Jim Bird’s Hay Bale Art: A Harvest Host Adventure
We came for the giant Tin Man and stayed for the hay art at Jim Bird’s Hay Bale Art. Jim Bird’s Hay Bale Art in Forkland, Alabama is home to a towering 35-foot Tin Man and dozens of hay bale sculptures — but we’ll be honest, we came for the metal guy. We stayed at …
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World’s Largest Spinach Can: The Mystery in Alma, Arkansas
World’s Largest Spinach Can: The Mystery in Alma, Arkansas I love a good roadside attraction hunt. You know the drill – you see something listed online as “World’s Largest Whatever,” you add it to your bucket list, you make the pilgrimage. Usually, you find it. Take some photos. Rate the experience. Move on. But the …
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Popeye’s Garden in Alma, Arkansas: A Charming Roadside Stop
We rolled into Alma, Arkansas, in 2022 on a mission: find the World’s Largest Spinach Can. We’d seen it listed on roadside attraction sites, added it to our bucket list, and made the trek. (Truth be told, Zach’s parents live near Alma, so we were there to visit them!) Except when we got there, we …
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Vintage Postcard Recreation: Chief Bemidji Then & Now
The Postcard Time Machine Project Begins So here’s how this whole vintage postcard recreation project started. In July 2024, Zach and I visited Bemidji, Minnesota, for UniCon ’24—the last one that’ll be held in the US. We stopped at a lakeside park to photograph the Chief Bemidji statue, one of many stops we made exploring …
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World’s Largest BB Gun: Daisy Airgun Museum in Rogers, Arkansas
The Giant Red Ryder That Started It All 📍 Location: 202 W Walnut St, Rogers, AR 72756 We had a VA appointment in Fayetteville, and since we were already up that way, we drove a little further north to Rogers. We were actually in town to check out Flashback Pizza (bucket list item #1 – …
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