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Find Vermont travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
Floating Bridge Sunk, Vehicles Blocked
Brookfield - We aren’t automatically enchanted by states touting their drive-thru attractions, especially if they are historic wooden bridges, those dainty ligaments for antiques shoppers and would-be art photographers. Full story
Featured Attractions
Bread and Puppet Museum
Glover, Vermont
Gracefully decaying collection of giant, German Expressionist puppets in an old barn..
Hope Cemetery
Barre, Vermont
Stone carvers of the "Granite Capital of the World" have left their mark on a local burial ground.
New England Maple Syrup Museum
Pittsford - Rutland, Vermont
The secrets of New England's gooey gold revealed in mind-numbing detail!
Man With a Crowbar in His Head
Cavendish, Vermont
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.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Barre: Granite Monuments of Hope Cemetery
- Barre: Rock of Ages. World's Largest Granite Quarry [tips]
- Bristol: Lord's Prayer Rock
- Brookfield: Floating bridge [tips]
- Burlington: Ben & Jerry's First Store plaque
- Burlington: Champy Lake Monster Memorial [tips]
- Burlington: Whale's Tales [tips]
- Burlington: World's Tallest File Cabinet [tips]
- Cavendish: Phineas Gage Memorial
- Cuttingsville: Mourning Marble Man
- Glover: Bread and Puppet Museum
- Leicester (Brandon): Queen Connie - Gorilla holding VW [tips]
- Middlebury: Dog Catching Frisbee Memorial
- Middlebury: Sheldon Museum
- Pittsford: New England Maple Syrup Museum
- Putney: Santa's Land USA [tips]
- Rutland: Rutland County Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- St. Johnsbury: The Dog Chapel
- St. Johnsbury: Bug Art, Fairbanks Museum
- Shelburne: Shelburne Museum
- South Royalton: Joseph Smith Birthplace
- Wallingford: Boy with the Boot
- West Dover: Happy Bee
- Waterbury: Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard and factory tour [tips]
- Williamstown: Knight's Spider Web Farm
- Woodbury: Drive under a barn [tips]
