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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.
RV Museum and Hall of Fame
Elkhart, Indiana
Museum chronicles a century of trailers, RVs and mobile homes, in a town where they are manufactured.
Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum
Elkhart, Indiana
Allen Stewart claims to have the largest superhero memorabilia collection in the world, including almost 70,000 comic books.
Dairy Adventure at Fair Oaks Farms
Fair Oaks, Indiana
Agritourism the way it should be. Watch calves born in the Birthing Barn, see 72 cows milked by a revolving giant turntable!
Dan Quayle 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."
Indiana Medical History Museum: Brains in Jars
Indianapolis, Indiana
Highlights include a real autopsy room and a room filled with brains in jars. Abby Normal!
Old Ben, World's Largest Steer
Kokomo, Indiana
A 2.5-ton steer named Old Ben, dead over a century, but preserved behind glass.
Ultraviolet Apocalypse
Munster, Indiana
Contemplation and surprises at the Carmelite Shrines, part of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery.
Future Birthplace of Captain Janeway
Bloomington, Indiana
Captain Kathryn Janeway of the starship Voyager will be born here on May 20, 2336.
Rotary Jail That Rotates
Crawfordsville, Indiana
Rare 19th century incarceration carousel rotates to delight tourists and students of prison history.
Giant Santa
Evansville, Indiana
35 feet tall, formerly welcomed all good boys and good girls to a truck stop (demolished). Abandoned, then saved, fully restored, and set up in a new location in September 2016.
Coach of the Leg Lamps
Indianapolis, Indiana
Bronze sculpture of basketball coach John Wooden shows him crouched in a huddle, surrounded by five pairs of disembodied human legs.
World's Largest Sycamore Stump
Kokomo, Indiana
Formerly the world's largest sycamore tree. Still an impressive attraction.
Belle Gunness: Butcher of La Porte
La Porte, Indiana
Infamous local lady who was known -- too late -- for murdering her husbands (and dozens of other people, too).
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom Memorial Museum
Mitchell, Indiana
America's hard luck spaceman finally got some recognition, but only after he was dead.
Corey the Ice House Giant
New Castle, Indiana
A towering, thickly-clothed man painted in cool blue shades, appropriate for the mascot of a bar named Old Ice House Tavern.
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.
Three White Men Hanged For Killing Indians
Pendleton, Indiana
A bluntly worded stone marker actually preserves a happy moment in Indiana history, when killing Indians became a capital crime.
Santa's Candy Castle
Santa Claus, Indiana
Restored and revived portion of Santa Claus Town, a never-completed 1930s mega-Christmas-themed attraction. Now a full-time candy shop.
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- Acton: Veal's Ice Tree [tips]
- Alexandria: World's Largest Ball of Paint
- Auburn: National Automotive and Truck Museum
- Auburn: Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum [tips]
- Auburn: Duesenberg Museum [tips]
- Battle Ground: Prophet's Rock [tips]
- Bloomington: Big Brain with Smart Lighting [tips]
- Bloomington: Future Birthplace of Captain Janeway
- Brazil: Champ: 24-Foot-Tall Great Dane [tips]
- Bruceville: Home of the Big Peach [tips]
- Buckskin: Henager Memories and Nostalgia Museum [tips]
- Clarksville: Concrete Statue Factory [tips]
- Clarksville: Rosie the Riveter Photo-Op
- Columbus: Limestone Pillars - Veterans Memorial [tips]
- Corydon: Constitution Elm - Historic Stump [tips]
- Corydon: Indiana Caverns [tips]
- Crawfordsville: Rotary Jail That Rotates
- Dupont: Micrometer Grave Marker [tips]
- Elkhart: RV Museum and Hall of Fame
- Elkhart: Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum
- Evansville: Giant Santa
- Evansville: World War II Navy LST [tips]
- Fair Oaks: Dairy Adventure at Fair Oaks Farms
- Fort Wayne: Hanson Quarry Observation Deck [tips]
- Fortville: Martini-Drinking Pink Elephant [tips]
- Franklin: Big John: Former World's Largest Rocking Chair [tips]
- Fremont: Stand on Three States: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio [tips]
- French Lick: Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Diorama [tips]
- Greencastle: WWII V-1 German Buzz Bomb [tips]
- Hammond: Pole Licker Statue: A Christmas Story [tips]
- Huntington: Dan Quayle Vice Presidential Museum
- Indianapolis: Indiana Medical History Museum: Brains in Jars
- Indianapolis: Muffler Man: Mr. Bendo [tips]
- Indianapolis: Elvis Last Concert Plaque [tips]
- Indianapolis: Coach of the Leg Lamps
- Jasper: Geode Grotto of Father Sztuczko [tips]
- Jeffersonville: 20-Foot-Tall Metal Woman: "I Am Your Mother" [tips]
- Kokomo: World's Largest Sycamore Stump
- Kokomo: Old Ben, World's Largest Steer
- Kokomo: Willie the Whale [tips]
- Kokomo: KokoMantis, 17-Foot-Tall Bug [tips]
- La Porte: Belle Gunness: Butcher of La Porte
- Lincoln City: Bronzed Foundation of Lincoln's Cabin [tips]
- Logansport: Insane Asylum Museum [tips]
- Marengo: Marengo Cave
- Mauckport: Squire Boone Caverns and Bones [tips]
- Milltown: Shoe Tree [tips]
- Mitchell: Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom Memorial Museum
- Mitchell: Gus Grissom Rocket Monument
- Mitchell: Painting of the Gus Grissom Rocket Monument
- Montpelier: Muffler Man Indian: Parks & Recreation [tips]
- Muncie: Muffler Man [tips]
- Muncie: 25-Foot-Tall Paul Bunyan [tips]
- Munster: Ultraviolet Apocalypse
- Munster: Man Sits on Giant Typewriter
- New Castle: Corey the Ice House Giant
- Oolitic: Joe Palooka Statue
- Otisco: 15 Acres of Concrete Statuary [tips]
- Pendleton: Three White Men Hanged For Killing Indians
- Peru: Big Charley the Elephant
- Peru: Grissom Air Museum [tips]
- Richmond: Double Decker Bus Inside Restaurant [tips]
- Richmond: Save the Cat! Fire Mural [tips]
- Roselawn: Giant Lady's Leg Sundial
- Santa Claus: Santa's Candy Castle
- Santa Claus: America's First Santa Statue
- Santa Claus: Santa Claus Museum
- Smithville: Baker's Junction Railroad Museum [tips]
- South Bend: Studebaker Museum: Lincoln Carriage of Doom [tips]
- St Joe: Famous Indiana Wooden People [tips]
- St. John: Shrine of Christ's Passion and Millennium Mary
- Toto: Muffler Man - Indian [tips]
- Valparaiso: Orville Redenbacher, King of Popcorn
- Valparaiso: Daisy the Stuffed Dog
- Vincennes: Uncle Sam Statue [tips]
- Vincennes: Indiana Military Museum [tips]
- Wabash: Star Wars Walkers [tips]
- West Lafayette: Russian Bomber Watchtower and Monument [tips]
- Whiteland: Garden of Gas Station Signs [tips]
- Whiting: Mascot Hall of Fame
- Zionsville: Yard Art Extravaganza [tips]