Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Vermont

While in Vermont, you might enjoy a visit to:

Will Knight makes art from the his spider web harvest.

The sprawling Shelburne Museum, Electra Havemeyer Webb's crazy collection of everything, includes a full-size sidewheel ship and a lighthouse.

John P. Bowman's extravagant 19th century mausoleum, eternally attended by the marble mourning man.

Home of Purple Plum Man, one of our favorite kiddieland sculptures. Renovated and revived.

Henry Sheldon's Egyptian child mummy finally had a decent, Christian burial.

A concrete King Kong that's traded in Fay Wray for an old-style Volkswagen.

The secrets of New England's gooey gold revealed in mind-numbing detail!

Two 13-foot-tall whale tails, made of granite, stick up out of the ground next to the interstate.

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