Indiana Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Indiana. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Indianapolis
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Acton: Veal's Ice Tree - Albany: Shoe Tree
- Albion: Diehl's Jalopy Junction
- Alexandria: World's Largest Ball of Paint
- Anderson: Frisch's Big Boy Statue
- Anderson: Half-Buried Cars and Dinosaurs
- Anderson: Nestle Quick Bunny Sign
- Anderson: The Walking Man Project
- Anderson: Uranus Fudge Factory
- Angola: Sojourner Truth Statue
- Arlington: Marker: Plane Crash in a Cemetery
- Ashley: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Auburn: Duesenberg Museum
- Auburn: Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum
- Auburn: National Automotive and Truck Museum
- Aurora: Abandoned Building Murals
- Aurora: Buried in her Cadillac
- Avon: Haunted Bridge
- Bargersville: Soccer Ball Rock
- Bass Lake: Large Fish Head
- Batesville: German Cuckoo Clock Tower
- Batesville: Weberding's Carved Holy Family
- Battle Ground: Prophet's Rock
- Battle Ground: Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument and Museum
- Battle Ground: Wolf Park - Wolf Kisses
- Bedford: Foote's Tomb Junk Art
- Berne: Giant Swiss Clock Tower
- Bloomfield: World's Largest Tire Jack
- Bloomington: 1910 U.S. Population Center
- Bloomington: Aristicat
- Bloomington: Big Brain with Smart Lighting
- Bloomington: Future Birthplace of Captain Janeway
- Bloomington: John Mellencamp Statue
- Bloomington: Pieces of the Battleship Indiana
- Bluffton: 1930s Concrete Bear and Tree
- Bowling Green: Clayshire Castle
- Brazil: Champ: 24-Foot-Tall Great Dane
- Brazil: Gift from Brazil to Brazil
- Bruceville: Giant Coke Bottle
- Bruceville: Home of the Big Peach
- Buckskin: Henager Memories and Nostalgia Museum
- Bunker Hill: Big Chair
- Butler: International Monster Truck Museum
- Camby: Doctor Who Store, Mini-Museum
- Cannelton: World's Largest Celtic Cross Carved From Single Rock
- Carmel: Brick Head
- Carmel: Giant Hood Ornament
- Carmel: Pirate Cat Memorial
- Centerville: World's Largest Candle
- Churubusco: Monster Turtle of Fulk Lake
- Clarksville: Colgate Clock - 2nd Largest Timepiece in the World
- Clarksville: Concrete Statue Factory
- Clarksville: Rosie the Riveter Photo-Op
- Clarksville: Shake, Buddy! Lewis and Clark
- Clarksville: Upended Cadillac With Mannequin
- Cloverdale: House Of Bells
- Columbus: Limestone Pillars - Veterans Memorial
- Columbus: World's Largest Toilet
- Columbus: Zharakos Soda Fountain And Museum
- Connersville: Vivian's Dollhouse Grave
- Corydon: Childhood Home of Hazzard Sheriff Rosco
- Corydon: Constitution Elm - Historic Stump
- Corydon: Indiana Caverns
- Crawfordsville: Rotary Jail That Rotates
- Crown Point: Dillinger Jail
- Crown Point: Pencil Collection, Odd Dummies
- Dale: Birthplace of Florence Henderson
- Dale: Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels Museum
- Dana: Ernie Pyle World War II Museum
- Danville: Mayberry Cafe - Andy Griffith Tribute
- Delphi: Metal Dinosaur, Big Chicken
- Dupont: Micrometer Grave Marker
- Dyer: Monument To "The Ideal Section" Of The Lincoln Highway
- Elberfeld: Yard Full of Model Airplanes
- Elkhart: Hall of Heroes Superhero Museum
- Elkhart: RV Museum and Hall of Fame
- Ellettsville: Big Crayon and Pencil
- Evansville: A League of Their Own: Baseball Movie Ballpark
- Evansville: Giant Santa
- Evansville: Grave of a Gypsy Queen
- Evansville: Haunted Library
- Evansville: Kids' Private Jet
- Evansville: Metal Lion
- Evansville: Retro Sign Collection
- Evansville: World War II Navy LST
- Fair Oaks: Dairy Adventure at Fair Oaks Farms
- Fairmount: James Dean Gallery
- Fairmount: James Dean Museum
- Fairmount: James Dean's Grave
- Fairmount: Tree with Car and Bicycles
- Farmersburg: Tiny Church - Taylor Prayer Chapel
- Fort Wayne: 27-Foot-Tall Blue Skinned Deity
- Fort Wayne: First Professional Baseball Game
- Fort Wayne: Giant Bowling Pin
- Fort Wayne: Hanson Quarry Observation Deck
- Fort Wayne: Jets!
- Fort Wayne: Johnny Appleseed's Grave
- Fort Wayne: Mastodon on Campus
- Fort Wayne: Monument to Birdboy
- Fort Wayne: Scrap Metal Mariachi Band
- Fort Wayne: Sit with Johnny Appleseed
- Fort Wayne: Teen Lincoln and his Dog
- Fortville: Martini-Drinking Pink Elephant
- Franklin: Big John: Former World's Largest Rocking Chair
- Franklin: Grave in the Middle of the Road
- Franklin: Sit with Ben Franklin
- Freedom: Kayaker on Roof
- Fremont: Stand on Three States: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio
- French Lick: Emperor Larry Bird
- French Lick: Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Diorama
- French Lick: Otis the Fishing Sasquatch
- Gary: Birthplace of Michael Jackson
- Gary: Fusion: Steel Workers and Fairies
- Gas City: Oil Derrick Street Signs
- Goshen: Bulletproof Anti-Gangster Pillbox
- Goshen: McDonald's Castle
- Grabill: Ice Cream Sundae Boat
- Greencastle: Periodic Display of the Elements
- Greencastle: WWII V-1 German Buzz Bomb
- Greenfield: Boxy Ole Clark and Bandit
- Greenfield: Lobby Display of Big Game Taxidermy
- Greensburg: Tree on the Courthouse Roof
- Greentown: Pocket Watch Grave
- Hammond: Pole Licker Statue: A Christmas Story
- Hanover Township: Shoe Corner
- Hardinsburg: Chainsaw Garden
- Harlan: Double Parking Meter Tombstone
- Haubstadt: Martini-Drinking Pink Elephant
- Haubstadt: Weather Rock and Animal Statues
- Holland: Dutch-Style Windmill
- Huntertown: Extraterrestrial Machines
- Huntingburg: A League of Their Own: Movie Ballpark
- Huntington: Dan Quayle Vice Presidential Museum
- Huntington: T-33 Jet Fighter - Military Park
- Indianapolis: 1968 Kennedy Gun Monument
- Indianapolis: Ann Dancing: Electronic Go-Go Dancer
- Indianapolis: Artspark: Twisted House
- Indianapolis: Big Barbecue Grill and Bronze Inventor
- Indianapolis: Big Comb Bike Rack
- Indianapolis: Big Cow
- Indianapolis: Bizarre Murals
- Indianapolis: Brick Head 3
- Indianapolis: Coach of the Leg Lamps
- Indianapolis: Duckpin Bowling
- Indianapolis: Elvis Last Concert Plaque
- Indianapolis: Galyan's Bear
- Indianapolis: Glow-in-the-Dark Lincoln Head
- Indianapolis: Heidelberg Haus Murals
- Indianapolis: Indiana Medical History Museum: Brains in Jars
- Indianapolis: Indianapolis Catacombs
- Indianapolis: KISS Kittens Mural
- Indianapolis: Kurt Vonnegut Mural
- Indianapolis: Large Bowling Pins
- Indianapolis: Lonehenge: Cadillac Ranch with One Car
- Indianapolis: Martin and Bobby Across the Divide
- Indianapolis: Muffler Man: Mr. Bendo
- Indianapolis: Pyramids of the Future
- Indianapolis: Seated Waving Lincoln Statue
- Indianapolis: Sleep in a Pullman Rail Car
- Indianapolis: Structure Man
- Indianapolis: Superhero Window Man
- Indianapolis: The Idle
- Indianapolis: Three Dinosaurs Breaking Out Of Children's Museum
- Indianapolis: Tiny Tourists, Big Money Bag People
- Indianapolis: USS Indianapolis: Sunk A-Bomb Ship Memorial
- Indianapolis: Workers Memorial Statue
- Jasper: Geode Grotto of Father Sztuczko
- Jasper: Giant Popcorn Box
- Jeffersonville: 20-Foot-Tall Metal Woman: "I Am Your Mother"
- Jeffersonville: Giant Fishing Lure
- Jeffersonville: Schimpff's Confectionery
- Jeffersonville: Vintage Fire Museum
- Kendallville: Fake Old Gas Station
- Kendallville: Froggy Forest Mural
- Kendallville: Mid-America Windmill Museum
- Kokomo: First Automobile Voyage by Horseless Carriage
- Kokomo: KokoMantis, 17-Foot-Tall Bug
- Kokomo: Monument to First Trip by Car
- Kokomo: Old Ben, World's Largest Steer
- Kokomo: Pose in Hammerhead Shark
- Kokomo: Story Book Express - Fairytale Convenience Store
- Kokomo: Willie the Whale
- Kokomo: World's Largest Sycamore Stump
- Kouts: Castle Minimart
- Kouts: Flying A Service Station
- La Porte: Belle Gunness: Butcher of La Porte
- LaGrange: Windmill Water Tower
- Lafayette: Beverages Delivered by a Model Train
- Lafayette: Farm Family Sculpture
- Lafayette: Red Crown Mini-Museum
- Lafayette: Site of First Successful Caesarean in Indiana
- Lake Station: Ruben's Giant Hobo
- Larwill: Metal Knight
- Lawrenceburg: Peggy the Flying Red Horse
- Liberty: Ears of Corn Propane Tanks
- Ligonier: Pumpkin Fantasy Land
- Lincoln City: Bronzed Foundation of Lincoln's Cabin
- Logansport: Big Bull Statue #2
- Logansport: Fiberglass Freaks' Batman Museum
- Logansport: Insane Asylum Museum
- Madison: Bowling Ball Rosary in a Graveyard
- Madison: Miniature Statue Of Liberty
- Marengo: Marengo Cave
- Marion: James Dean Born Here
- Markle: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Mauckport: Squire Boone Caverns and Bones
- Medora: Longest Historic Covered Bridge in the USA
- Mentone: World's Largest Egg
- Merrillville: Grave of the Wienermobile's Little Oscar
- Metamora: Possible Largest Collection of Cookie Jars
- Michigan City: 1933 Century of Progress Homes
- Middlebury: Das Dutchman Essenhaus
- Middlebury: Giant Mushroom
- Milltown: Shoe Tree
- Mitchell: Gus Grissom Boyhood Home Museum
- Mitchell: Gus Grissom Rocket Monument
- Mitchell: Painting of the Gus Grissom Rocket Monument
- Mitchell: Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom Memorial Museum
- Monon: Dine Among the Railroad Collectibles
- Monon: Silo Face
- Monroeville: Four Presidents Corners
- Monticello: Replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
- Montpelier: Ice Cream Giant: Parks & Recreation
- Montpelier: Jet on a Playground
- Montpelier: Muffler Man Indian: Parks & Recreation
- Mooresville: Gravity Hill
- Mount Vernon: Kitchen Canister Grain Bins
- Muncie: 1950s Hobby Shop - National Model Aviation Museum
- Muncie: 25-Foot-Tall Paul Bunyan
- Muncie: Bob Ross Experience
- Muncie: Muffler Man
- Muncie: Native American Playing a Flute
- Muncie: Sheet Metal Man
- Munster: 20th Century War Heroism
- Munster: Big Rusty Indian, Farmer, Steelworker
- Munster: Howie the Quality Meats Bull
- Munster: Man Sits on Giant Typewriter
- Munster: Megachurch Last Supper
- Munster: Ultraviolet Apocalypse
- Nashville: 1905 U.S. Population Center
- Needmore: Cursed Pyramid Ruins
- New Albany: Fork in the Road
- New Albany: Head-Butting Buffalo
- New Albany: Lady Tron's Diner
- New Castle: Big Shoe
- New Castle: Car-Sized Sneaker
- New Castle: Corey the Ice House Giant
- New Castle: Hometown LOVE Sculpture
- New Harmony: 8-Legged Calf
- New Harmony: Footprints of the Archangel Gabriel
- New Salisbury: Man in a Box
- Nineveh: Chapel Built by WWII Enemy POWs
- North Judson: Large Ice Cream Cone
- North Vernon: Horse-Drawn Hearse in a Gazebo
- Oldenburg: 70-Foot-High German Maypole
- Oolitic: Joe Palooka Statue
- Osgood: Bilby Tower
- Osgood: Rusty Metal Sculptures
- Ossian: Gigantic Minion Silo
- Otisco: 15 Acres of Concrete Statuary
- Oxford: Birthplace of Dan Patch, Famous Harness Racing Horse
- Pendleton: Marker: Abolitionists Mobbed Here
- Pendleton: Three White Men Hanged For Killing Indians
- Peru: Big Charley the Elephant
- Peru: Business of Cast Metal Oddities
- Peru: Grissom Air Museum
- Peru: International Circus Hall of Fame
- Peru: Megatron Statue
- Peru: Miami County Museum Oddities
- Phlox: POW Camp: MIA Tower
- Plainfield: Giant Bony Fish
- Plymouth: Chief Menominee, Trail of Death
- Plymouth: Half-Buried Ford Mustang
- Poseyville: Taxidermy Decor
- Richmond: Big Cross
- Richmond: Double Decker Bus Inside Restaurant
- Richmond: Giant Chair
- Richmond: Highest Point in Indiana
- Richmond: Madonna of the Trail
- Richmond: Save the Cat! Fire Mural
- Rockport: Lincoln Landing
- Roselawn: Giant Lady's Leg Sundial
- Rushville: Grave of Wendell Willkie
- Rushville: Lova's Dollhouse Grave
- Rushville: Wendell Willkie Mural
- Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Shell Chapel: Tiny Church
- Santa Claus: A Town Named Santa Claus
- Santa Claus: America's First Santa Statue
- Santa Claus: Drippy Snowman
- Santa Claus: Every Day is Christmas - Town Named Santa Claus
- Santa Claus: Holiday World
- Santa Claus: Santa Claus Museum
- Santa Claus: Santa's Candy Castle
- Scottsburg: Purple Dragon
- Seymour: Freeman Army Airfield Museum
- Seymour: Graves of America's First Train Robbers
- Seymour: John Mellencamp Mural
- Shelbyville: Little Balser and His Bears
- Shirley: Baker Man Statue
- Shoals: Jug Rock
- Smithville: Baker's Junction Railroad Museum
- Solsberry: America's Longest Railroad Trestle, Formerly
- South Bend: Studebaker Museum: Lincoln Carriage of Doom
- South Bend: Touchdown Jesus
- South Bend: Trees Spell "Studebaker"
- South Whitley: Prancing Ponies
- Spencer: Big Pig and Gorilla
- Spencer: Giant Chicken
- St Joe: Famous Indiana Wooden People
- St. John: Shrine of Christ's Passion and Millennium Mary
- Sullivan: Monopoly Board Tombstone
- Swayzee: Garfield the Cat, Basketball King
- Terre Haute: Giant Bowling Pin
- Terre Haute: Larry Bird Statue
- Terre Haute: Santa's Sacrifice Monument
- Terre Haute: Stiffy Green the Bulldog
- Terre Haute: Stiffy Green's Mausoleum
- Terre Haute: Yellow Boot, Steer, Swamp Monster
- Toto: Muffler Man - Indian
- Troy: Shoe Tree
- Underwood: Pigeon Roost Massacre Site
- Union City: Hang on Sloopy Meets the Amish
- Valparaiso: Daisy the Stuffed Dog
- Valparaiso: Howie the Big Bull
- Valparaiso: Industrial Revolution Restaurant
- Valparaiso: Orville Redenbacher, King of Popcorn
- Vevay: 80-Foot-High Flood Poles
- Vevay: Giant Rubber Ducky
- Vincennes: Big Pencil
- Vincennes: Indiana Military Museum
- Vincennes: Muffler Car Parts Man
- Vincennes: Newsboy Red Skelton
- Vincennes: Peter Toth Carving of Chief Tecumseh
- Vincennes: Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy
- Vincennes: Uncle Sam Statue
- Wabash: Bumble Bee
- Wabash: Civil War Doctor Home
- Wabash: First Electrically Lighted City in the World
- Wabash: Metal Hulk and Welder
- Wabash: Optimus Prime
- Wabash: Star Wars Walkers
- Warren: Big Rooster
- West Baden: Carlsbad of America: Self-Supporting Dome
- West Lafayette: Fallen Soldier Sculpture
- West Lafayette: Moonprints and Statue of Neil Armstrong
- West Lafayette: Russian Bomber Watchtower and Monument
- West Lafayette: VOSS Model: Solar System Spiral
- West Lafayette: World's Largest Boilermaker Statue
- Wheatfield: 2-D Big Steel Man
- Whiteland: Garden of Gas Station Signs
- Winchester: Our Jonnie Gravestone
- Worthington: Stump of Former Largest Sycamore Limb
- Zionsville: Antique Fan Museum
- Zionsville: Yard Art Extravaganza
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Auburn: Batmobile on a Pole
- Auburn: Kruse Museums and Expo Center
- Barnard: Giant Sling Shot
- Bedford: Ed's Ghost Town
- Bedford: Mel Kenyon, King of the Midget Car Racers
- Bedford: Obsessive Sign Builder
- Bedford: Osama Bin Bigfoot
- Bowling Green: Barn House
- Brookston: Indian Muffler Man
- Bruceville: Backyard Roller Coasters of John Ivers
- Chesterton: Wizard of Oz Festival
- Corydon: Butt Drugs
- Crown Point: John Dillinger Museum
- Crown Point: World's Largest Tooth
- Decatur: Teddy Bear Trees and Rocket
- Evansville: Shoe Tree
- Evansville: Wilson The Turkey - Deceased
- Fort Wayne: Falling Bread Billboard
- Franklin: Jesus Crucified On A Barn
- Gary: Frank-N-Stein
- Greenwood: Sodom's Shadow
- Helmsburg: Sock Factory Tour
- Hortonville: Big Hippo
- Hudson: Dine in a Bank John Dillinger Robbed
- Huntington: Sumner B. Sheets Museum of Wildlife
- Huntington: Tel-Hy Nature Preserve Privy Collection
- Indianapolis: American Super Heroes Museum
- Indianapolis: Large Bull Statue
- Indianapolis: Statue of Liberty Museum
- Lafayette: Meals Delivered by Model Train
- Lafayette: Rainforest Car Wash
- Lake Station: Elephant and Hippie Rhinoceros
- Lake Station: Frankenmuffler Mutant
- Linton: SF Writer's Pylon of Solitude
- Logansport: Big Bull Statue #1
- Loogootee: Birdhouse Paradise of Bill Larkin
- Merrillville: Piatak Meats Cow
- Michigan City: Share the Street with a Train
- Morgantown: Brown County Railroad Museum
- Muncie: Philip Robinson Fruit Jar Museum
- Muncie: Rooftop Needle and Thread
- Noblesville: Wendell Hansen's Bible Birds
- Plainfield: Meals Delivered by Train
- Plymouth: Restored Mobil Gas Station
- Princeton: Castle Car Wash
- Reynoldsburg: Atomic Park
- Sardinia: Chrome Hubcaps Fence
- Shipshewana: World's Largest Hudson Car Collection
- South Bend: Pink Elephant
- Terre Haute: Birthplace of the Coke Bottle Mural
- Terre Haute: Marker: Birthplace of the Coke Bottle
- Unionville: Gobbler's Rock-in-Tree
- Valparaiso: Obsessed Sign Builder
- Vincennes: Hall of Hollywood Hoosiers
- Warsaw: Retro Foodliner Sign
- Whiting: Mascot Hall of Fame
- Wolf Lake: Luckey Hospital Museum
