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  • World's Largest Ball of Paint

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Ultraviolet Apocalypse

    Munster, Indiana

    Contemplation and surprises at the Carmelite Shrines, part of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery.

  • Future Birthplace of Captain Janeway

    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

    Rotary Jail That Rotates

    Crawfordsville, Indiana

    Rare 19th century incarceration carousel rotates to delight tourists and students of prison history.

  • Giant Santa

    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

    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

    World's Largest Sycamore Stump

    Kokomo, Indiana

    Formerly the world's largest sycamore tree. Still an impressive attraction.

  • Belle Gunness: Butcher of La Porte

    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.

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  • Giant Lady's Leg Sundial

    Giant Lady's Leg Sundial

    Roselawn, Indiana

    Where a leg tells nudists the time of day.

  • Santa's Candy Castle

    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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