Our Favorite Weird Stops Just here for the big stuff? Jump to a state: Arkansas | Iowa | 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’d been through Rogers before and somehow missed the World’s Largest BB Gun. A giant Red Ryder sitting in downtown Arkansas, and we missed it. Obviously, that needed correcting. We headed into downtown Rogers expecting exactly what the name promised: one ridiculously oversized BB gun, a couple of photos, and another World’s Largest checked off…
Follow our 2026 road trip bucket list featuring 12 quirky attractions across 10 states, from giant popcorn to Popeye statues to everything weird in between
