Indiana
Find Indiana travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
Roy Rogers and James Henager: Perfect Together
Buckskin - James Henager has some P.T. Barnum in him; he knows how to use the press, and the press usually finds itself cheerfully playing along. Full story
Featured Attractions
A Town Named Santa Claus
Santa Claus, Indiana
The holiday-themed burg of Santa Claus offers a number of year-round landmarks and attractions.
World's Largest Ball of Paint
Alexandria, Indiana
Painter Mike Carmichael has his singular attraction hanging on a chain as he continues to add multi-colored layers. It started as a baseball.
Ultraviolet Apocalypse
Munster, Indiana
Contemplation and surprises at the Carmelite Shrines, part of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery.
Gus Grissom Tributes
Mitchell, Indiana
Hometown museums and memorials to America's hard-luck astronaut.
Dan Quayle Center and US Vice Presidential Museum
Huntington, Indiana
James Danforth Quayle served as George H. W. Bush's VP from 1989-93. The museum's slogan is "Second to One."
RV Hall of Fame
Elkhart, Indiana
Hall of fame and museum devoted to trailers, RVs and mobile homes in a town where they are manufactured.
Joe Palooka Statue
Oolitic, Indiana
Palooka was a Sunday comic strip character -- an honest boxer. This statue was commissioned in 1947, when the champ's popularity was at its highest.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Alexandria: World's Largest Ball of Paint [tips]
- Bedford: Cursed Pyramid Ruins, Land of Limestone Museum [tips], Obsessive Sign Builder [tips]
- Buckskin: Henager Memories and Nostalgia Museum
- Chesterton: Wizard of Oz Museum [tips]
- Cloverdale: House of Bells [tips]
- Dale: Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels [tips]
- Elkhart: RV Hall of Fame
- Evansville: Library Ghost [tips]
- Fairmount: James Dean Grave [tips]
- Greensburg: Rooftop Tree [tips]
- Huntington: Dan Quayle Center and Vice Presidential Museum [tips]
- Huntington: Privvy Collection [tips]
- Jeffersonville: Hubcap Blind Justice [tips]
- Kendallville: Mid-America Windmill Museum [tips]
- Kokomo: Old Ben
- Kokomo: World's Largest Sycamore Stump
- Lafayette: Rainforest Car Wash [tips]
- Lafayette: Red Crown Museum [tips]
- Lake Village: Sundial Lady's Leg
- LaPorte: Husband Killer Exhibit [tips]
- Mentone: World's Largest Egg
- Mooresville: Gravity Hill [tips]
- Mitchell: Gus Grissom Tributes
- Muncie: Largest Collection of Mason Jars [tips]
- Munster: Ultraviolet Apocalypse
- New Castle: Giant Tennis Shoe
- Oolitic: Joe Palooka Statue
- Peru: Big Charlie display
- Santa Claus: Town Named Santa Claus
- Santa Claus: Drippy Snowman
- Santa Claus: Original Santa Claus Statue
- Santa Claus: Santa Claus Museum
- Santa Claus: Santa's Candy Castle
- Terre Haute: Stiffy Green the Bulldog
- Vincennes: Big Peach [tips]
- West Lafayette: Russian Bomber Watchtower [tips]
