Mount Trashmore Park: Home to Virginia Beach’s Peter Toth Whispering Giant
Discover Mount Trashmore Park in Virginia Beach, from its surprising landfill history to a Peter Toth Whispering Giant, skate park, playgrounds, and walking trails.
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Charlotte GPS Mystery Tour: Disco Chickens, Giant Hands, and a DDD Redemption Arc
Follow along on a Charlotte GPS Mystery Tour featuring Pinky’s Westside Grill, public art, giant sculptures, Easter eggs, thrift stops, and one very misunderstood notification.
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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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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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2026 Road Trip Bucket List Across America
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
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Columbia SC Public Art Guide: Murals, Sculptures & Interactive Art Hunt
🗿 Sculpture Hunt in the Chill — Columbia SC Public Art at Its Most Unexpected February’s forecast? Cold hands, warm hearts, and roadside art that made us pull over with zero hesitation. Our Columbia SC public art stroll served dinosaurs with emotional boundaries, clangy sculptures that hit Zachary’s sweet spot, and murals designed to make…
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Things to Do in Ames Iowa: Metal Art & Reiman Gardens
Things to Do in Ames Iowa: Giant Gnomes, Metal Art & Unexpected Stops We were on our way to Minnesota for Unicon21 and decided to make a stop in Ames, Iowa. Usually, we keep stops like this pretty brief. Grab food, stretch legs, maybe find one weird thing and move on. Ames did not cooperate….
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Half-Horse Half-Tractor Sculpture – St Pauls NC
Now here’s something you don’t see every day… or ever. St. Pauls, North Carolina If you’ve ever wondered what the breaking point is for a woman living in a 35ft raised-roof school bus with seven cats and two dogs, it’s usually somewhere around St. Pauls, North Carolina. We were navigating the narrow backroads—car dolly in…
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Blues Brothers Statue – Weird Roadside Stop in Stedman, NC
Discover the Blues Brothers Statue in Stedman, NC—a quirky roadside tribute. See photos and explore more hidden gems!
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The Whittling Wall – A Legacy Carved in Brick
Discovering The Whittling Wall in Mount Airy, NC Some art you look at. This one looks back. In the heart of Mount Airy, North Carolina, The Whittling Wall stretches quietly along a downtown block—a story told entirely in brick and mortar. Life-sized figures lean, listen, and linger in conversation, their faces and hands carved right…
