Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Vermont

While in Vermont, you might enjoy a visit to:

The sprawling Shelburne Museum, Electra Havemeyer Webb's crazy collection of everything, includes an immense sidewheel ship dragged onto dry land.

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

Home of Purple Plum Man, one of our favorite kiddieland sculptures. The theme park closed in December 2011 due to falling attendance.

Barre is "Granite Capital of the World," and its granite-carver artists turned Hope Cemetery into their canvas.

One of America's oddest celebrities is Phineas P. Gage, who had a metal rod blown through his head and lived to profit from it.

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.

38 feet tall, made of real file cabinets welded on top of each other into a skinny, towering pile.

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