Missouri Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Missouri places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Affton: Big School Ice Cream Cone
Belton: Carry Nation Museum, Hearse, Grave
Blue Springs: World's Shortest Saint Patrick's Day Parade
Bogard: Catfish Poles and Uncle Sam
Bonne Terre: Bonne Terre Mine: Billion Gallon Lake
Bonne Terre: Giant Animal Cluster
Bonne Terre: Lead Miner Statue
Bonne Terre: Nike Missile
Bonne Terre: The Space Museum
Boonville: Muffler Man Auction
Branson West: Branson Interactive Zoo aka Predator World
Branson: Branson Scenic Railway - Vintage Train Tour
Branson: Dinosaur Canyon Golf
Branson: Giant Fiddle and Banjo
Branson: God and Country Inspirational Gardens
Branson: Kirby VanBurch, Prince of Magic
Branson: Marvel Cave
Branson: Motel Shaped Like a Riverboat
Branson: Mount Rushmore with Fake Celebrity Heads
Branson: Shoot for the Stars Mini Golf
Branson: The Baldknobbers
Branson: Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
Branson: Veterans Memorial Museum
Branson: Waltzing Waters
Branson: World's Largest Ball of Twine
Branson: World's Largest Rooster
Branson: Yakov Smirnoff Theatre
Brunswick: World's Largest 20th Century Pecan
California: Burgers' Smokehouse Visitors Center
Camdenton: Bridal Cave
Camdenton: Ruins of a Castle
Canton: Oldest Continually Operating Ferry on the Mississippi
Carterville: SuperTAM on 66 - Superman Memorabilia
Carthage: Crapduster
Carthage: Marlin Perkins Statue
Carthage: Precious Moments Park and Chapel
Carthage: Red Oak II - Transplanted Town
Carthage: Tire Changing Woman
Cassville: Home of the White-Gray Squirrels
Center: Jim Brown's Gas Station
Centralia: Many Metal Dinosaurs
Charleston: Boomland
Chesterfield: Big Butterfly and Caterpillar
Chesterfield: The Awakening - Buried Giant
Chillicothe: Home of Sliced Bread
Clayton: Big Shoe Made of Shoes
Clayton: Terminator Cube
Clinton: Starship Enterprise
Columbia: Bronze Beetle Bailey
Conway: Den Of Metal Arts
Crystal City: Eager Gas Jockey
Cuba: 1870s Train Replica
Cuba: Bob's Gasoline Alley
Cuba: Oldest Continuously Operating Motel on Route 66
Cuba: Route 66 Mural City
Cuba: Shoes of the World's Tallest Man
Devils Elbow: Bar with Bras on the Ceiling
Diamond: George Washington Carver's Talking Bust
Dittmer: Big "Bender" Sculpture
Dittmer: Big Pink Pig Named Floyd
Doolittle: Cookin' from Scratch Chicken Car
Eagleville: Buffalo Hunt - Metal Silhouettes
Easley: BoatHenge
Edgar Springs: U.S. Population Center 2000
Edgar Springs: U.S. Population Center 2000 Sign
Excelsior Springs: The Hall of Waters
Fanning: World's Largest Rocking Chair
Farmington: Giant Animal Cluster
Fayette: Stephens Museum - Boone Gravestone, Big Game, Extinction
Fenton: Big Pink Elephant
Fenton: Silo X - Halloween Horror
Foristell: Muffler Man
Fort Leonard Wood: Military Museums of Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Leonard Wood: Temporary Buildings of World War II
Frankford: Tiny Church
Fulton: Auto World Museum
Fulton: National Churchill Museum and Berlin Wall Pieces
Galena: The Y Bridge
Gladden: Gladden - A Tiny Town
Golden City: Tiny Church
Golden: Golden Pioneer Museum - Minerals
Greenwood: Monkey Island
Hamilton: J.C. Penney Museum
Hannibal: Decorated Bear Statues
Hannibal: Large Mug of Root Beer
Hannibal: Mark Twain Cave
Hannibal: Mark Twain Lighthouse Lit by Presidents
Hannibal: Mark Twain Statue
Hannibal: Mark Twain, Riverboat Pilot
Hannibal: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Statue
Hannibal: Tom Sawyer's Fence
Hannibal: Unsinkable Molly Brown Museum
Hartshorn: Rebel Cave - Vague Recollections
Hayti: Large Fiberglass Animals
Hazelwood: First Due Fire Museum
Hazelwood: Original Monster Truck
Hazelwood: Psychedelic Mall
Highlandville: World's Smallest Cathedral - Closed
Hornersville: Buster Brown's Grave
Hornersville: Spook Light
Huntsville: Large Ball of String
Independence: Leila's Hair Museum
Independence: Swirly Rocket Ship Temple
Independence: Truman Presidential Library - Nixon Bowling Ball
Jefferson City: Cole County Historical Society - See Missouri's Inaugural Gowns
Jefferson City: Head of Rush Limbaugh, Famous Missourian
Jefferson City: Missouri State Penitentiary Tours
Jefferson City: State Capitol's Shifty Paintings
Jefferson City: Veterinary Museum
Jerome: Larry Baggett's Trail of Tears Memorial
Joplin: Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Apartment
Joplin: Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Relics
Joplin: Undercliff Grill and Bar
Joplin: Volkswagen Beetle Hydrant Crash
Kahoka: Tiny Church
Kansas City: Advertising Icon Museum (Proposed)
Kansas City: Air Roasted DC-3 Takeoff
Kansas City: Arabia Steamboat Museum
Kansas City: Big Spider Sculpture
Kansas City: Buffalo Skeleton
Kansas City: Castle Northmoor
Kansas City: Entire City Block of Giant Books
Kansas City: Fish Church
Kansas City: Gates BBQ Tuxedo Man
Kansas City: Heart Forest
Kansas City: Large Needle and Button
Kansas City: Meals Delivered by Model Train
Kansas City: Missasoit, Great Sachem of the Wampanoags
Kansas City: Mosaic Santa Fe Trail Marker and Bob's Bizarre
Kansas City: National World War I Museum
Kansas City: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Kansas City: Odd Tombstone - The Horse Thief
Kansas City: Oldest Waterbed Store in the World
Kansas City: Pirate Ship and Sea Monster
Kansas City: Proposed: Big Wheel
Kansas City: TWA Moonliner II - Rocket Ship
Kansas City: World's Largest Cap Gun
Kansas City: World's Largest Concrete Soccer Ball
Kansas City: World's Largest Shuttlecocks
Kearney: Jesse James' Feather Duster of Death
Kidder: Front Yard "Castle" Containing Cremated Couple
King City: The Big Pump

Kingdom City: Nostalgiaville USA
Kingdom City: Ozarkland
Kirkwood: Three Stacked Chairs
Laclede: General "Blackjack" Pershing Statue and Birthplace
Lake Ozark: Big Indian and Happy Half-Wit
Lake Ozark: Mystery Spot - Crazy Cousins Cabin
Lake Wappapello: Muffler Man - Indian
Lebanon: Route 66 Museum
Lee's Summit: Jalapeno Pepper Pilot
Lexington: Madonna of the Trail
Liberty: First Daylight Bank Robbery
Liberty: Rhino Tombstone
Licking: Baseball Water Tower
Long Lane: Smallest Bank in Missouri
Louisiana: Fake Mural Painter in Town of Murals
Mansfield: On the Laura Ingalls Wilder Trail
Marceline: Walt Disney Dreaming Tree and Barn
Marceline: Walt Disney Hometown Museum
Marionville: Home of the White Squirrels
Marshall: Grave of Jim The Wonder Dog
Marshall: Jim The Wonder Dog Memorial Park
Marshfield: Hubble Telescope Replica
Marthasville: Daniel Boone's First Grave
Maryville: International Plaza - Clocks of Many Nations
Memphis: Mementoes of the Missouri Giantess
Memphis: Nash-in-the-Wall
Milan: Grave of Pete Kibble's Foot
Mount Vernon: Tiny Church - Missouri's Smallest
Nevada: Giant Morel Mushroom
New Haven: John Colter Memorial Stone
New London: Giant Statue of Mark Twain
New Madrid: New Madrid Earthquake Museum
Noel: Bluff Dwellers Cavern: Move 20 Ton Rock with 2 Fingers
Noel: Overhanging Rocks in Christmas Town
Old Mines: Large Chair in Yard
Overland: Dan's Emerald Forest
Ozark: Lambert's - Home of Throwed Rolls
Pacific: Black Madonna Shrine and Grottoes
Pagedale: Honey, Where's My Metro Pass?
Patton: Hilltop Stonehenge Replica
Plato: Monument: 2010 Population Center of the U.S.
Plattsburg: Mr. and Mrs. Santa Tree Headstones
Plattsburg: Statue of America's Only One-Day President
Plevna: Metal sculpture "garden"
Point Lookout: Ralph Foster Museum - Beverly Hillbillies Car
Poplar Bluff: Indian Chief Statue
Portage des Sioux: Miracle Flood Repelling Virgin Mary
Reeds Spring: Talking Rocks Caverns
Reeds Spring: The Ozarks' Smallest Cathedral
Rich Hill: Big Mouth, World's Largest Coal Shovel
Richland: Cave Restaurant [formerly Caveman BBQ]
Rolla: Stubby Stonehenge
Rolla: Totem Pole Trading Post
Salem: Bo's Hollow - Ride Antique Cars, Eat Beef Jerky
Salisbury: Big Metal Grasshoppers
Sedalia: Art on the Rails
Seneca: Giant Milnot Condensed Milk Can
Sikeston: Lambert's, Home of the Throwed Rolls
Smithville: Vandal-Ravaged Woodhenge
Springfield: Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World Fish and Wildlife Museum
Springfield: Bill Elliott's 1997 McD's NASCAR
Springfield: Fantastic Caverns - Ride-Thru Cave
Springfield: Gigantic Paper Cup
Springfield: Limoland: Limousine Factory Tours
Springfield: Longest Footbridge for Trainspotters
Springfield: Muffler Car
Springfield: Retro Steak N Shake
Springfield: USS Lapon - Sub Surfacing out of Grass
Springfield: World's Largest Fork
St. Clair: Hot and Cold Water Towers
St. Genevieve: Cave Vineyard - Underground Tasting
St. James: Vacuum Museum and Factory Tour
St. Joseph: Famous Bull Tombstone And Time Capsule
St. Joseph: Glore Psychiatric Museum
St. Joseph: Jesse James' Corpse Basket - Funeral Museum
St. Joseph: Neon Horse and Rider
St. Joseph: Patee House Museum
St. Joseph: Pink Ice Cream Cone
St. Joseph: Where Jesse James Was Killed
St. Louis: Animatronic Ben Franklin
St. Louis: Announcer Jack Buck Monument
St. Louis: Big Eyeball
St. Louis: Big Unloved Urban Indian
St. Louis: Big Wrench
St. Louis: Budweiser Brewery Tour
St. Louis: Cheshire Lodge - Theme Room Motel
St. Louis: Christman Studio and Sculpture Park
St. Louis: Chuck Berry Statue
St. Louis: City Museum
St. Louis: Dental Health Theatre
St. Louis: Empty Suit
St. Louis: Flying Saucer Building
St. Louis: Giant Concrete Turtle Park
St. Louis: Giant Dinosaur
St. Louis: Giant Farmer Fred and Clyde - In Storage
St. Louis: Giant Soda Bottle
St. Louis: Grand "Old White" Water Tower
St. Louis: Griot Museum of Black History
St. Louis: Hollow Head
St. Louis: Lemp Mansion - Haunted Tours
St. Louis: Monkey Man
St. Louis: Muffler Car Parts Man
St. Louis: Museum of Transportation, Trains and a Tugboat
St. Louis: Museum of the Dog
St. Louis: Nijinski Hare: Kung Fu Rabbit
St. Louis: Snake Man
St. Louis: St. Louis Walk Of Fame
St. Louis: Ten-Foot-Tall Pinocchio
St. Louis: The Billiken
St. Louis: The Red Tower
St. Louis: U.S. Grant's Log Cabin
St. Louis: Venice Cafe - Wacky Art
St. Louis: Wax Museum of St. Louis
St. Louis: Whispering Arch
St. Louis: World's Largest Amoco Sign
St. Louis: World's Largest Chess Piece
St. Louis: Wreckage Of The USS Inaugural
Stanton: Jesse James Wax Museum
Stanton: Meramec Caverns
Stanton: Riverside Wildlife and Reptile Center
Steelville: Canoe Art in Missouri's Floating Capital
Steelville: Monument: 1990 Population Center of the U.S.
Stotts City: Stearnsy Bears
Stoutsville: Largest Chigger
Strafford: Exotic Animal Paradise
Sumner: World's Largest Goose
Syracuse: 2,000 foot Tall Tower
Tightwad: Town Bank with Ironic Name
Tipton: 8-ball Water Tower
University City: Fish on a Bicycle
Valley Park: Cowboy Muffler Man
Warrensburg: Statue of Old Drum, Unselfish Dog
Washington: Corn Cob Pipe Museum
Waynesville: Frog Rock
Waynesville: Giant Bowling Pin
Webb City: Giant Hands in Prayer
Webster Groves: Apple Chairs
Weldon Spring: Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail
Weston: Largest Ball Of String, Not Twine
Willow Springs: Fire Museum of Missouri
Windsor: Sleep in a Caboose

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Branson: Branson's Gravity Hill - Vague Recollections
Branson: Concrete Pink Gorilla (Gone)
Branson: Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum - Gone
Branson: Segway: Feel The Excitement
Branson: The Amazing Frederick - Gone
Branson: Tony Melendez - Guitarist with No Arms
Charleston: Car Wrapped Around RR pole
Charleston: World's Largest Ball of Human Hair - Sold
Cuba: Neon Bucking Bronco Sign
Jefferson City: Big Pacifier Made of Cigarette Butts
Osage Beach: Paul Bunyan Muffler Man - Gone

Poplar Bluff: Call Of The Wild - Gone
Reeds Spring: Museum of the Unexplained
Republic: Lanning Sculpture Garden - Closed
Rolla: A&W Happy Family - Gone
Rolla: God's Well - Gone
Rolla: Memoryville USA and Antique Car Museum - Closed
St. Charles: Noah's Ark Restaurant - CLOSED
St. Louis: Museum of Quackery - Gone
Wardell: Otay Meter and Museum - Closed

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