⛽Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum, Sapulpa, Oklahoma The World’s Tallest Gas Pump Supulpa? Confirmed!! We didn’t plan to stop. We were just rolling through Sapulpa when this 66-foot gas pump caught our eye — towering, red, and impossible to ignore. It sits outside the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum like it’s daring you …
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The 25-Foot Hair Tonic Bottle in Tulsa The World’s Largest Hair Tonic Bottle sits in a parking lot at 12320 East Skelly Drive in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It’s 25 feet tall, white with a red label, and towers over the parking lot outside what used to be the Liquid Life headquarters. This giant bottle has been …
The plan was to stay for a “few hours”. We stayed for two full sessions and came home covered in red Arkansas clay. The Ron Coleman Mine in Jessieville, Arkansas, wasn’t even on our radar when we rolled into the Hot Springs area. But we’d been in Arkansas long enough to know that this state …
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We did not expect to leave a soap factory with strong feelings about soap. Spoiler: we have strong feelings about soap now. The Herbaria Factory Tour St. Louis offers a behind-the-scenes look at how their small-batch, all-natural soaps are made — and it’s completely free to visit. Herbaria was one of several stops on a …
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The Bear Store in Hale, Michigan sits right along M-65 at 6787 M-65, and if you’re driving by, the giant Adirondack chair out front is probably what gets your attention first. That’s what got ours, anyway. We weren’t planning to stop, didn’t have it marked, weren’t looking for anything — but the chair was enough …
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A Must-See Roadside Attraction at Fanning 66 Outpost – 5957 State Hwy ZZ, Cuba, MO On our Route 66 adventure, Zach and I couldn’t resist stopping at one of Missouri’s most charming roadside attractions – the World’s Second Largest Rocking Chair! This magnificent giant red rocker has been welcoming travelers since the 1940s. It continues …
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Checkmate on the Sidewalk: The 20-Foot King of St. Louis Let’s be real: Zach and I aren’t chess players. I couldn’t tell a Gambit from a Goalie, and Zach is more likely to be found knitting a Waldo hat than studying a chess board. But the World’s Largest Chess Piece in St. Louis? That was …
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