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 a full-size sidewheel ship and a lighthouse.

Joseph Greene was so grateful to be alive when he reached Bristol that he had the Lord's Prayer carved into a rock -- or so the story goes.

Barre, Vermont, is "Granite Capitol of the World," and the granite-carvers who live here have turned Hope Cemetery into their canvas.

Winged monkeys have been part of the Burlington skyline for 30 years, and now the two winged monkeys on the former Union train station (now Main Street Landing) have delivered twins!

A strange memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War.

This dog actually played catch with a pie plate, but it's the spirit of the game that counts.

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

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

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