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Adirondack Park: Unlucky Guide Monument
Albany: Nipper the RCA Dog
Albany: Spinning U-Haul Truck on Pole
Alexandria Bay: Boldt Castle - On an Island
Amsterdam: Car on a Smokestack
Amsterdam: Kirk Douglas Rock and Park
Ashland: Partridge Family Bus Replica
Auburn: Murder of Crows
Auriesville: Shrine of the North American Martyrs
Ausable Chasm: Ausable Chasm
Ausable Chasm: Mystery House - Vague Recollections
Austerlitz: Circle Museum- Bijan's Junk Art
Avoca: Caboose Motel
Avoca: Railroad Signs on Front Lawn
Batavia: Giant Knight Of Armor
Bay Shore: Hispanic Auto Parts Men
Bayport: Cement Sphinx
Bethel: Hippie Muffler Man
Bethel: Official Woodstock Rock Festival Museum
Bethel: Unofficial Woodstock Rock Festival Museum
Bethel: Woodstock Festival Site
Binghamton: Binghamton Sidewalk of Stars
Binghamton: Blossom the Black Angus Bull
Binghamton: Carousel Capital of the World
Binghamton: Exterminator - Burial site of racehorse
Binghamton: Marconi Radio Test Tower
Binghamton: Rod Serling "Walking Distance" Plaque
Binghamton: Rod Serling High School Plaque
Binghamton: Rod Serling and the Sidewalk of Stars
Binghamton: Rod Serling's 1937 Penmanship Certificate
Blue Mountain Lake: Cabin of a Hermit
Boiceville: Steve Heller's Auto Art Studio
Bronx: Coyotes: Back in New York City
Bronx: Plaque: Ernie Bushmiller Born Here
Bronx: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Brooklyn: A&W Root Beer Statues
Brooklyn: Chunk of Plymouth Rock
Brooklyn: Coney Island - Sideshows by the Seashore
Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn: Last Identifiable Piece of the Normandie
Brooklyn: Mosaic House of Boerum Hill
Brooklyn: New York Transit Museum
Brooklyn: Nude Man on Civil War Ironclad
Brooklyn: Pocket Change Plaque of Mid-Air Collision Survivor
Brooklyn: Prison Ship Martyrs Memorial
Brooklyn: Ronald McNair, Doomed Astronaut
Brooklyn: Statue of Liberty in Brooklyn
Brooklyn: The City Reliquary
Brooklyn: Topsy the Elephant
Brooklyn: Ye Nautical Garage
Buffalo: Gun That Killed President McKinley
Buffalo: Iron Island Museum: Ghost Tours
Buffalo: Large Victorian Head of a Woman
Buffalo: Monty the Therapy Dog
Buffalo: October Surprise Storm Statues
Buffalo: Proposed: Anti-Abortion Arch
Buffalo: Sixty Canoes Piled on a Pole
Buffalo: Surapa, Painting Elephant
Buffalo: Twin Statues Of Liberty Atop An Office Building
Cairo: Mystery Spot - Vague Recollections
Canisteo: World's Largest Living Sign
Carmel: Grieving Gold Star Mother Statue
Carmel: Largest Indoor Buddha in the Western Hemisphere
Catskill: Catamount People's Museum
Catskill: Silver Rocket
Cazenovia: Stone Quarry Art Park
Center Moriches: Wooden Teepee - 1890 Amusement
Centerport: World's Largest Dead Fish
Champion: B.A. Snowman
Cherry Valley: The Tepee
Chester: Faithful Steed - Hambletonian Monument
Chittenango: All Things Oz Museum
Claverack: Huge stone Mohawk Indian head
Clayton: Fishing Bobber
Clayton: Paul Bunyan's Golf Bag
Cobleskill: Secret Caverns
Commack: Graveyard in a Home Depot Parking Lot
Cooperstown: Cardiff Giant
Cooperstown: Forest of a Dozen Dads
Corning: Little Joe Tower - Thermometer Glass Stretching
Corning: Museum of Glass
Cortland: 1939 New York World's Fair flag pole
Croghan: Veronica's Garden - Folk Art
Cuba: Seneca Oil Spring
DeRuyter: Concrete Woolly Mammoth
Derby: Muffler Man - Ice Cream Boy
Dewitt: 9/11 Memorial
Dolgeville: Blues Brothers Lookalike Statues
Duanesburg: Metal T-Rex
Dunkirk: Pete Toth Carved Indian head
East Aurora: Vidler on the Roof statue
East Bethany: Rolling Hills Asylum Tours
East Otto: Griffis Sculpture Park
Eastport: Large Virgin Mary Atop a Large Boulder
Eden: The Original American Kazoo Company and Museum
Elizabethtown: Skull and Noose of Last Man Hanged in Essex County
Ellenville: Boy and the Boot Statue
Elmira: Big Electric Plug
Elmira: Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens Grave
Elmira: National Soaring Museum
Elmira: Statue of Absent (Dead) Duck
Elmsford: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan
Emmons: Non-Infringing Dog Tribute
Fishers Landing: Big Crow Statues
Flanders: The Big Duck
Forestport: Wigwam Tavern with Crashed Plane
Georgetown: Spirit House
Gilboa: Gilboa Fossil Exhibit
Glen Falls: Last of the Mohicans Cave
Gouverneur: Giant Roll of Lifesavers
Granville: Pember Museum - Doctored Miniature Deer
Great Valley: Little White Church in the Dell
Hague: Elephant Rock in Adirondacks
Hartsdale: Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum
Hartsdale: Grave of Joachim, War Dog Memorial
Hartsville: Hartsville Museum - Vague Recollections
Hartwick: Lunch Box Collection
Hawthorne: Babe Ruth's Grave
Highland: World's Highest and Longest Pedestrian Bridge
Hoosick: Big Moose Country Store
Hoosick: Furniture of the Hoosick Giants
Howes Cave: Howe Caverns
Irving: Big Indian: Muffler Man 2
Irving: Indian Chief
Ithaca: W. C. Muenscher Poisonous Plant Garden
Jamestown: Lucille Ball's Grave
Jamestown: Lucy-Desi Museum
Jamestown: Vitameatavegamin Mural
Jay: Land of Make-Believe - Vague Recollections
Johnstown: Last Battle of the Revolution Fought Here
Jordanville: Russian Orthodox Monastery - Shorts Forbidden
Kerhonkson: World's Second Largest Garden Gnome
Kinderhook: Chain Dinosaur
Kingston: Peg Leg Bates Highway
Lake George: Futuro - Flying Saucer house - Vague Recollections
Lake George: House of Frankenstein Wax Museum
Lake George: Lake George Mystery Spot
Lake George: Lake George, Where Muffler Men Lurk
Lake George: Magic Forest
Lake George: Magic Forest Muffler Man - Amish Ax Man
Lake George: Magic Forest Muffler Man - Bunyan
Lake George: Magic Forest Muffler Man - Clown
Lake George: Magic Forest Muffler Man - Pecos Bill
Lake George: Storytown - Vague Recollections
Lake George: World's Fair Muffler Man
Lake George: World's Tallest Uncle Sam
Lake Vanare: Swiss Trail Muffler Man
Le Roy: Human-Size Statue of Liberty
Le Roy: Jell-o Museum
Lilydale: Town of Spiritualists
Liverpool: Salt Museum
Lockport: Lockport Caves - Boat Ride
Lockport: Upside-Down Bridge
Long Island City: Elevator Historical Society Museum
Lowville: Cream Cheese Festival
Lowville: Large Cow Statue
Lyndonville: Sneaker Tree - Shoe Tree
Malone: Forgotten Elephant Execution
Mamaroneck: Walter's - Asian Roof Hot Dog Stand
Manorville: Stargazer Abstract Sculpture
Massapequa: Big Chief Lewis
Massena: Eisenhower Lock - Watch Tankers
Mayfield: The Leather Guy
Medford: Giant Rooftop Hot Dog
Medina: Big Apple
Medina: Medina Railroad Museum
Medina: Only Tunnel Under the Erie Canal
Merrick: Roadside Grave of Roxey the Railroad Dog
Middleville: Ace of Diamonds Mine
Middleville: Herkimer Diamond Mines
Millbrook: Wing's Castle
Morehouse: Boat Shaped House
Mount Tremper: Kaatskill Kaleidoscope
Mountainville: Giant Three-Legged Thing on Big Human Head
Napanoch: Shanley Haunted Hotel
New Hyde Park: Colonial-era McDonalds
New York: "Red Square" Rooftop Statue of Lenin
New York: American Girl Doll Hair Salon
New York: Atomic Buddhist Statue
New York: Bar Covered with Bras and Ties
New York: Big 9 Sculpture
New York: Big Fishing Lure
New York: Big, Big Penny
New York: Burnishing the Rich Man
New York: Chief: Firehouse Dog Hero
New York: Daily News Earth Globe
New York: Doomed Merchant Mariners Memorial
New York: Eagles and Goat Statue
New York: Endowed Elephant Statue
New York: Five Painted Berlin Wall Slabs

New York: Ghostbusters Headquarters
New York: Giant Alice in Wonderland Sculpture
New York: Giant Cartoon Man Playground Slide
New York: Giant Margarita
New York: Giant Mary Holds the Twin Towers
New York: Giant Needle and Button
New York: Giant Wall Chessboard
New York: Gold Buddha in Former Porno Theater
New York: Graffiti Hall of Fame
New York: Grate Sound Art - Times Square
New York: Grave of "an Amiable Child"
New York: H.R.S. Titanic Memorial Lighthouse
New York: Handprints of the Stars
New York: Hess Triangle
New York: Hotel Lobby Bullet Hole
New York: Indian Restaurant Row
New York: Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
New York: Jekyll and Hyde Club
New York: Joey Ramone Place
New York: Key-Crazy Locksmith Building
New York: Kinetic Sculptures of Jersey Devil and Mr. Peanut
New York: Knotted Gun Sculpture
New York: Lin Ze Xu, Drug War Pioneer
New York: Madame Tussaud's New York
New York: Man with a Big Rubber Band Ball
New York: Memorial Bone Statue for Dead Dogs
New York: Metal Rats of NYC
New York: Metronome: World's Most Confusing Clock
New York: Mexican War Hero Buried Here
New York: Misleading Movie Plaque
New York: Monument to NYC Mayor who Died Falling out of a Plane
New York: Monument to the Father of Gynecology and Experimenter on Slave Women
New York: Monument to the Maine
New York: Mossman Lock Collection
New York: Mummified Mother Cabrini
New York: Museum of Sex
New York: Museum of the American Gangster
New York: Museum: Smallest Museum in NYC
New York: Naked Adam - Naughty Statue Rubbing
New York: National Debt Clock
New York: New York Loft Filled with Dirt
New York: Nikola Tesla Died Here
New York: Obscura Antiques and Oddities
New York: Original Pooh
New York: Overlooked Memorial to the Holocaust
New York: Peep O-Rama - Times Square Visitors Center
New York: Pockmarks from the Wall Street Bomb Blast
New York: Ralph Kramden Statue
New York: Reptile museum on an old ferry
New York: Sidewalk Soho Subway Map
New York: Slocum Disaster Memorial Fountain
New York: Statue of Balto the Wonder Dog
New York: Statue of a Politician Killed by a Blizzard
New York: Stud Boar Statue
New York: The Frying Pan and John Jay Harvey
New York: The Little Red Lighthouse
New York: The Naked Cowboy
New York: The Sphere: 9/11 Tribute
New York: Trailer Park Lounge
New York: Tribute to NYC's Sewer Alligator
New York: Universal Soldier Monument
New York: Upside Down Elephant
New York: Virtual Skyride of New York City
New York: Walk Upon Famine-Ravished Ireland
New York: Wall Street Bull - Good Luck Burnishing
New York: Washington's Tooth
New York: White Man Outsmarts Indian Monument
New York: Wooden Escalators
New York: Yiddish Walk of Fame
Newburgh: Bannerman Castle on Pollepel Island
Newburgh: Motorcyclepedia: Walls of Death
Niagara Falls: Creation Story Turtle Building
Niagara Falls: Daredevil Museum
Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls: Power Vista
Niagara Falls: Tesla Statue: American Side
Niagara Falls: The Mob Tours
Niagara Falls: Twist O' The Mist
Niagara Falls: U.S.A. vs Canada
North Creek: Church Built Out of VW Garage
North Hudson: Mountain Man Statue
North Pole: Santa's Workshop
North River: Barton Garnet Mine
North Tonawanda: Carousels Factory Tour
Northville: Return of the Chimney Swifts
Old Forge: Enchanted Forest Paul Bunyan
Olean: Parade of Squirrels
Olean: Rock City Park
Olivebridge: Submerged Sites of Olive City and Olive Bridge
Oneida: World's Smallest Church
Ossining: Sing Sing Prison Museum
Owego: Pink Elephant
Ozone Park: Greaser on a Clock
Palmyra: Angel Was Here, Birthed Mormonism
Paul Smiths: Tuberculin Rabbit Shrine
Peekskill: The Original Yellow Brick Road
Penn Yan: USA Field
Penn Yan: World's Largest Pancake Griddle
Phelps: Two-Story Outhouse
Philadelphia: Replica Statue of Liberty
Phoenix: Lost World Museum
Pittsford: Mushroom House
Port Jervis: Tri-States Monument
Port Washington: Castle Gould - Irish Castle Replica
Portland: Olde Chautauqua Farm's Cherry Elephant
Pottersville: Natural Stone Bridge and Caves Park
Poughkeepsie: Walkway Over the Hudson - East Side
Prattsville: Pratt Rock
Queens: 1964-65 New York World's Fair
Queens: Large Supersonic Jet Sculpture
Queens: New York City Panorama: World's Largest Scale Model
Queens: Plaque to Policemen Killed by a World's Fair Bomb
Queens: Time Capsules from the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs
Queens: World's Fair - Rotting Rockets
Queens: World's Fair - The Unisphere
Red Hook: Fork in the Road, Prozac Pill
Richfield Springs: Petrified Creatures Museum
Riverhead: Muffler Man: Chief Running Fair
Rochester: Daredevil Death Site
Rochester: Fox Sisters Spirit Table
Rochester: Grave of Jack the Ripper - Maybe
Rochester: Image of Jesus Christ on Tree
Rochester: Monument to the Founders of Spiritualism
Rochester: Oldest Mini-Golf Course in the World
Rochester: Self-Storage Sword in a Stone
Rocky Point: Marconi Radio Shack
Romulus: Herd of Real White Deer
Roscoe: Photo Ops: Fish at the Train Crossing
Rosendale: Widow Jane Mine and Museum
Rotterdam: Cemetery at the Mall
Saratoga Springs: Natural Springs - Mouthful of Minerals
Saratoga Springs: Petrified Sea Gardens
Saugerties: Opus 40 - Environmental Sculpture
Schenectady: Mini-Statue of Liberty
Schoharie: Glass Tombstone and Queen Victoria's Friction Tube
Sharon Springs: Sulphur Temple - Healing Waters
Shoreham: Tesla's Laboratory: Still Off Limits
Silver Creek: "Dolly Dimples" Waitress Statue
Sleepy Hollow: Headless Horseman Bridge
Sleepy Hollow: Headless Horseman Sculpture
Sleepy Hollow: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Smithtown: The Smithtown Bull
Somers: Old Bet the Elephant
Southampton: Mr. Millenium - Giant Snowman
Speculator: Painted Pig Rock
Spencertown: Ron Kanwit's Taconic Sculpture - Giant Head
Staten Island: Memorial to a Peacock Mistaken for a Vampire
Staten Island: Museum to the Italian Who Italians Believe Invented the Telephone
Stillwater: Anonymous Benedict Arnold Leg Monument
Stony Brook: Mechanical Flapping Eagle
Stony Point: Marian Shrine - Towering Rosary Madonna
Stony Point: Muffler Man - Boy Scout Camp Mascot
Stormville: Volkswagen Rock
Sylvan Beach: Historic Sylvan Beach Amusement Park
Syracuse: 24-Second Shot Clock
Syracuse: 9/11 Memorial Park
Syracuse: Green on Top Traffic Light
Syracuse: Heaphys Heating and Plumbing Men
Syracuse: Junk animal garden
Syracuse: Victorian House Atop a Factory
Syracuse: Waiting for the "A" train
Tahawus: Tahawus Ghost Town
Tappan: Where Benedict Arnold's Pal was Hanged
Tonawanda: Homemade Dinosaur
Troy: Aluminum Statue of Uncle Sam
Troy: False Grave of Uncle Sam
Troy: Hometown of Uncle Sam
Troy: Uncle Sam Brewery Mural
Troy: Uncle Sam's Chamber Pot
Troy: Uncle Sam's Grave
Troy: Uncle Sam's Vacant Lot (formerly Uncle Sam's House)
Turin: Handmade Russian Orthodox Tiny Church
Vail Mills: Large Adirondack Chair
Valhalla: Friar's Club Cemetery
Victor: Valentown - Old Ghost Attraction
Wantagh: Grave of Checkers, Nixon's Dog
Waterloo: Scythe Tree
Watervliet: Museum of the Big Guns
Watkins Glen: Race Car On Roof
Wellesley Island: Tiny Church with Indian Statue
West Hampton: Castle with sculptures
West Nyack: Buffalo Soldier Cemetery - Mall Convenience
West Point: West Point Museum: War Booty
White Plains: Cell Phone tower Tree - World's Largest Q-Tip?
Whitehall: Rotting Remains of U.S.S. Ticonderoga
Wilmington: Happy Wiener Guy
Wolcott: Venus Rising Sculpture
Yonkers: Stew Leonard's Wacky Food Store

Gone But Not Forgotten

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

Bolton Landing: Time Town Theme Park - Gone
Brooklyn: Broken Angel House: Nine Story Mutant Artwork
Chittenango: L. Frank Baum Oz Museum - Closed
Farmingdale: 56th Fighter Group Restaurant - Closed
Haines Falls: Rip's Retreat - Gone
Lake George: World's Oldest Miniature Golf Course - Gone
Lake Placid: Big Viking - Gone
Liverpool: Muffler Man - Gone
Mayfield: Tree Through House - Gone
New York: 40-foot-tall Junk Tower - Gone
New York: George Washington's Dentures - Gone
New York: Greta Garbo's Shoe at Joe Franklin's Restaurant

New York: Hello Kitty Statues
New York: Large White Foot - Gone
New York: Mars 2112 - Sci-Fi Restaurant - Closed
New York: Pop-Tarts World - Gone
New York: The Andy Monument - Gone
Owego: Jailhouse Restaurant
Patterson: Rosemary's Texas Taco (Closed)
Poland: National Cookie Cutter Museum - Closed
Queens: Statue of Man Trampling Mermaids - Gone
White Lake: POW-MIA-9/11 Memorial - Torched
Wingdale: World's Largest Chair (Gone)

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