Missouri Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Missouri. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Branson | Hannibal | Kansas City | Saint Louis
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Affton: Big School Ice Cream Cone - Akers: Welch Spring Hospital Ruins
- Belleview: Elephant Rocks
- Belton: Carry Nation Museum, Hearse
- Belton: Carry Nation's Grave
- Blue Springs: World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade
- Bonne Terre: Bonne Terre Mine: Billion Gallon Lake
- Bonne Terre: Lead Miner Statue
- Bonne Terre: Nike Missile
- Bonne Terre: Space Museum and Gus Grissom Center
- Boonville: Budweiser Clydesdales Ranch
- Boonville: Old Jail and Hanging Barn
- Branson: Big Chair
- Branson: Branson Scenic Railway - Vintage Train Tour
- Branson: Dinosaur Canyon Golf
- Branson: Giant Fiddle and Banjo
- Branson: Giant Head of JFK
- Branson: Giant Meatball and Fork
- Branson: God and Country Inspirational Gardens
- Branson: Marvel Cave
- Branson: Mount Rushmore with Fake Celebrity Heads
- Branson: President Reagan's Big Head
- Branson: Shoot for the Stars Mini Golf
- Branson: The Baldknobbers
- Branson: Titanic Museum
- Branson: Veterans Memorial Museum
- Branson: World's Largest Ball of Twine
- Branson: World's Largest Roll of Toilet Paper
- Branson: World's Largest Rooster
- Branson: World's Largest Toy Museum
- Brumley: Swinging Bridges Road
- Brunswick: Former World's Largest Pecan
- Butler: Max: Reality TV Cartoony Cowboy
- Butler: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Camdenton: Bridal Cave
- Camdenton: Ruins of Ha Ha Tonka
- Canton: Remember When Toy Museum
- Cape Girardeau: Taft Mural: Visit Us Again
- Cape Girardeau: World's Largest Fountain Drink Cup
- Carterville: SuperTAM on 66: Superman Memorabilia
- Carthage: Alice in Wonderland Statue
- Carthage: Crapduster
- Carthage: Marlin Perkins Statue
- Carthage: Precious Moments Park and Chapel
- Carthage: Red Oak II - Transplanted Town
- Carthage: Tire Changing Woman
- Cassville: Home of the White-Gray Squirrels
- Center: Jim Brown's Gas Station
- Centralia: Larry Vennard's Metal Dinosaurs
- Charleston: Boomland
- Chesterfield: Big Butterfly and Caterpillar
- Chesterfield: The Awakening - Buried Giant
- Chillicothe: Fighter Jet on a Pole
- Chillicothe: Home of Sliced Bread
- Clarence: 1950s Gas Station With Dummies
- Clayton: Big Shoe Made of Shoes
- Clayton: Terminator Cube
- Cleveland: Muffler Man
- Collins: World's Largest Display of American Revolutionary War Flags
- Columbia: Bronze Beetle Bailey
- Conway: Rest Stops: Route 66 in Miniature
- Craig: Toilet Yard Art
- Crystal City: Eager Gas Jockey
- Cuba: 1870s Train Replica on a Wall
- Cuba: Cowcatcher Seat
- Cuba: Oldest Continuously Operating Motel on Route 66
- Cuba: Osage Trail Legacy Monument
- Cuba: Route 66 Mural City
- Cuba: Shoes of the World's Tallest Man
- De Soto: Big Pink Pig Named Floyd
- Desoto: Rat Fink and Sinclair Dino Mural
- Devil's Elbow: Devil's Elbow Bridge
- Diamond: George Washington Carver's Talking Bust
- Diamond: World's Largest Small Electric Appliance Museum
- Dittmer: Big Bender
- Doniphan: Frogs Shooting Pool
- Eagleville: Buffalo Hunt - Metal Silhouettes
- Easley: BoatHenge
- Edgar Springs: 2000 U.S. Population Center
- Edgar Springs: 2000 U.S. Population Center Sign
- El Dorado Springs: Healing Spring of the Osage
- Everton: Gay Parita Route 66 Sinclair Station
- Excelsior Springs: The Hall of Waters
- Fanning: Route 66 Red Rocker
- Fayette: Stephens Museum - Boone Gravestone, Big Game, Extinction
- Fenton: Big Pink Elephant
- Fenton: Creepyworld
- Foristell: Muffler Man
- Fort Leonard Wood: Military Museums of Fort Leonard Wood
- Fort Leonard Wood: Statue of a Sapper
- Fort Leonard Wood: Temporary Buildings of World War II
- Frankford: Tiny Church
- Fulton: Auto World Museum
- Fulton: National Churchill Museum and Berlin Wall Pieces
- Galena: The Y Bridge
- Gladden: Gladden - A Tiny Town
- Golden City: Tiny Church
- Golden: Golden Pioneer Museum
- Gravois Mills: Cup Tree and Shoe Fence
- Greenwood: Monkey Island
- Hamilton: J.C. Penney Museum
- Hannibal: Hannibal: Twain Town
- Hannibal: Karlock Cars and Pop Culture Museum
- Hannibal: Large Mug of Root Beer
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Boyhood Home
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Cave: Jimmy Carter Guest Book
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Lighthouse Lit by Presidents
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Museum
- Hannibal: Mark Twain Statue
- Hannibal: Mark Twain, Riverboat Pilot
- Hannibal: Tom Sawyer's Fence
- Hannibal: Tom and Huck Statue
- Hannibal: Unsinkable Molly Brown Museum
- Hartville: 2020 U.S. Population Center
- Hermann: Hermann the German
- Hermann: Steamboat Memorial
- Hornersville: Buster Brown's Grave
- Hornersville: Spook Light
- Humphreys: Sleep in a Grain Bin
- Huntsville: Large Ball of String
- Imperial: 15-Foot-Tall Bowling Pin
- Independence: 1859 Jail Museum
- Independence: Grave of Jim Bridger
- Independence: Jim Bridger Statue: Frontier Trails Museum
- Independence: Swirly Rocket Ship Temple
- Independence: Truman Presidential Library
- Jameson: Adam and Eve Lived Here
- Jefferson City: Bonnie and Clyde Shootout Souvenirs
- Jefferson City: Head of Rush Limbaugh, Famous Missourian
- Jefferson City: Kraken: Poolside Sea Monster
- Jefferson City: Missouri State Penitentiary Tours
- Jefferson City: Veterinary Museum
- Jerome: Larry Baggett's Trail of Tears Memorial
- Joplin: 2011 EF-5 Tornado Memorial
- Joplin: Big Bronze Dog at Dog Food Factory
- Joplin: Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Apartment
- Joplin: Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Relics
- Joplin: National Cookie Cutter Historical Museum
- Joplin: Route 66 Mural Park
- Joplin: Undercliff Grill and Bar
- Joplin: Volkswagen Beetle Hydrant Crash
- Kahoka: Tiny Church
- Kansas City: 25-Foot-Tall Penguin and Kangaroo
- Kansas City: 25-Foot-Tall Steel Jesus
- Kansas City: Air Roasted DC-3 Takeoff
- Kansas City: Arabia Steamboat Museum
- Kansas City: Big Bull on a Pylon, Dedicated by Ike
- Kansas City: Big Green Head of Charlie Parker
- Kansas City: Big Spider Sculpture
- Kansas City: Bonnie and Clyde Tourist Cabin Shootout
- Kansas City: Buffalo Skeleton
- Kansas City: Castle Northmoor
- Kansas City: Entire City Block of Giant Books
- Kansas City: Gates BBQ Tuxedo Man
- Kansas City: Glass Labyrinth - Outdoor Maze of Glass
- Kansas City: Large Needle and Button
- Kansas City: Man with Shoe in Mouth
- Kansas City: Meals Delivered by Model Train
- Kansas City: Mini-Baseball Diamond and Mural
- Kansas City: Missasoit, Great Sachem of the Wampanoags
- Kansas City: Money Museum: Truman's Coins
- Kansas City: Mural: Superman of Kansas City
- Kansas City: National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
- Kansas City: National World War I Museum
- Kansas City: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
- Kansas City: Pirate Ship and Sea Monster
- Kansas City: Rows of Headless Men
- Kansas City: Sidewalk Solar System Model
- Kansas City: TWA Moonliner II - Rocket Ship
- Kansas City: The Workhouse Castle
- Kansas City: Walt Disney's First Film Studio
- Kansas City: Watch Movies in a Bank Vault
- Kansas City: World's Fair Last Supper
- Kansas City: World's Largest Cap Gun
- Kansas City: World's Largest Shuttlecocks
- Kearney: Jesse James' Feather Duster of Death
- Kidder: Front Yard "Castle" Containing Cremated Couple
- King City: The Big Pump
- Kingdom City: Ozarkland
- Kirksville: Cursed Baird Devil's Chair
- Kirksville: Human Nervous System
- Kirkwood: Three Stacked Chairs
- La Russell: The Pump
- Laclede: General "Blackjack" Pershing Statue and Birthplace
- Lake Ozark: Chief Bagnell and Country Bumpkin: Muffler Men
- Lake Wappapello: Muffler Man: Chief Wappalese
- Lamar: Big Steer
- Lamar: Harry Truman Birthplace
- Lamar: Mini Statue of Liberty
- Lamar: Studebaker-Truman Mural
- Leasburg: Canoehenge
- Lebanon: Route 66 Murals
- Lebanon: Route 66 Museum
- Lee's Summit: Jalapeno Pepper Pilot
- Lesterville: The Boulder Field
- Lexington: Cannonball in a Column
- Lexington: Madonna of the Trail
- Liberty: China Slaughter, Crossing Guard
- Liberty: Jesse James Bank Museum
- Liberty: Rhino Tombstone
- Licking: Baseball Water Tower
- Linn: The Pig Museum
- Long Lane: Smallest Bank in Missouri
- Louisiana: Fake Mural Painter in Town of Murals
- Macon: Shoe of the World's Tallest Man
- Mansfield: Pitcher Who Killed Batter With Ball
- Marceline: Walt Disney Dreaming Tree and Barn
- Marceline: Walt Disney Hometown Museum
- Marionville: Home of the White Squirrels
- Marshall: Grave of Jim the Wonder Dog
- Marshall: Jim the Wonder Dog Memorial Garden
- Marshall: John Marshall, SCOTUS Justice
- Marshall: Nicholas Beazley Aviation Museum
- Marshfield: George Bush Was In Our Parade
- Marshfield: Hubble Telescope Replica
- Marthasville: Daniel Boone's First Grave
- Martin City: Steakhouse Steer
- Maryville: International Plaza: Clocks of Many Nations
- Memphis: Mementoes of the Missouri Giantess
- Memphis: Nash-in-the-Wall
- Memphis: Pepsi Museum
- Milan: Grave of Pete Kibble's Foot
- Miller: Hangar Kafe - Eat at a Farm Airfield
- Mount Vernon: World's Smallest Wedding Chapel
- Mountain Grove: World's Largest U.S. Constitution
- Mountain View: Scrap Metal Horse Herd
- Neosho: Home-Made Mini Submarine in the Woods
- Neosho: World's Largest Flowerbox
- Nevada: Giant Morel Mushroom
- Nevada: Max: Cartoony Cowboy
- New London: Giant Mark Twain
- New Madrid: New Madrid Earthquake Museum
- Noel: Bluff Dwellers Cave: Move 20 Ton Rock with 2 Fingers
- Overland: Dan's Emerald Forest
- Ozark: Lambert's - Home of Throwed Rolls
- Pacific: Black Madonna Shrine and Grottoes
- Pacific: Original Monster Truck
- Pacific: Route 66 Mining Caves
- Pagedale: Honey, Where's My Metro Pass?
- Phillipsburg: I Love Lucy Car
- Plato: 2010 U.S. Population Center
- Plattsburg: Statue of America's Only One-Day President
- Point Lookout: Ralph Foster Museum: Beverly Hillbillies Car
- Poplar Bluff: Indian Chief Statue
- Portage des Sioux: Miracle Flood Repelling Virgin Mary
- Reeds Spring: Talking Rocks Caverns
- Rich Hill: Big Mouth, World's Largest Coal Shovel
- Richmond: Grave of Bob Ford, He Shot Jesse James
- Rolla: Stubby Stonehenge
- Rolla: Totem Pole Trading Post
- Rolla: Vacuum Cleaner Museum
- Salem: Bo's Hollow - Ride Antique Cars, Eat Beef Jerky
- Salisbury: Gator Chasing Grasshoppers
- Sedalia: Cradle of Ragtime Piano
- Sedalia: Trail's End Cattle Drive Destination Monument
- Sikeston: Lambert's, Home of the Throwed Rolls
- Smithville: Woodhenge
- Southwest City: Stand on Three States: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
- Spencer: Spencer's Phillip 66
- Springfield: Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World
- Springfield: Bicycle Fence
- Springfield: Carl: Muffler Man Chef
- Springfield: Crystal Cave
- Springfield: Ed Galloway's Lion in a Cage
- Springfield: Fantastic Caverns: Ride-Thru Cave
- Springfield: Getaway Golf
- Springfield: Red's Giant Hamburg Sign
- Springfield: Stand Where a Man Was Killed by Wild Bill Hickok
- Springfield: USS Lapon - Sub Surfacing out of Grass
- Springfield: Wonders of Wildlife
- Springfield: World's 2nd Largest Fork
- St. Charles: Lewis and Clark and Seaman the Dog
- St. Clair: Hot and Cold Water Towers
- St. Genevieve: Cave Vineyard - Underground Tasting
- St. Joseph: Famous Bull Tombstone And Time Capsule
- St. Joseph: Glore Psychiatric Museum
- St. Joseph: Ice Cream Cone Building
- St. Joseph: Japanese Tea House
- St. Joseph: Jesse James' Corpse Basket - Funeral Museum
- St. Joseph: Patee House Museum
- St. Joseph: Pony Express Motel Sign
- St. Joseph: Pony Express National Museum
- St. Joseph: Walter Cronkite Interactive Memorial
- St. Joseph: Where Jesse James Was Killed
- St. Louis: Abraham Lincoln Slept Here
- St. Louis: Announcer Jack Buck Monument
- St. Louis: Bevo Windmill
- St. Louis: Big Eyeball
- St. Louis: Big Wrench
- St. Louis: Budweiser Brewery Tour
- St. Louis: Bull vs. Bear Death Match
- St. Louis: Cheshire Lodge - Theme Room Motel
- St. Louis: Chocolate Factory Tour
- St. Louis: Christman Studio and Sculpture Park
- St. Louis: Chuck Berry Statue
- St. Louis: City Museum
- St. Louis: Demo Man
- St. Louis: Empty Suit
- St. Louis: Flying Saucer Building
- St. Louis: Giant Concrete Turtle Park
- St. Louis: Giant Dinosaur
- St. Louis: Giant Vess Soda Bottle
- St. Louis: Grand "Old White" Water Tower
- St. Louis: Griot Museum of Black History
- St. Louis: HealthWorks! Kids Museum
- St. Louis: Hollow Head
- St. Louis: Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum
- St. Louis: Lemp Mansion - Haunted Tours
- St. Louis: Lewis, Clark, and Seaman the Dog
- St. Louis: Looking Up: 33-Foot-Tall Alien
- St. Louis: Mile-Long Graffiti Wall
- St. Louis: Military Aircraft Junkyard
- St. Louis: Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis
- St. Louis: Monkey Man
- St. Louis: Muffler Car Parts Man
- St. Louis: Museum of Transportation: Bobby Darin's Car of the Future
- St. Louis: Nijinski Hare: Kung Fu Rabbit
- St. Louis: Planet Walk
- St. Louis: Self-Made Man
- St. Louis: Snake Man
- St. Louis: St. Louis Walk Of Fame
- St. Louis: Stag Beer Garage Door
- St. Louis: Talking Ben Franklin at Money Museum
- St. Louis: Ten-Foot-Tall Pinocchio
- St. Louis: The Billiken
- St. Louis: The Red Tower
- St. Louis: U.S. Grant's Log Cabin
- St. Louis: Wax Museum of St. Louis
- St. Louis: Whispering Arch
- St. Louis: World's Largest Amoco Sign
- St. Louis: World's Largest Chess Piece
- St. Louis: World's Largest Man-Made Moon
- St. Louis: Wreckage Of The USS Inaugural
- St. Robert: Jurassic Diner Dinosaurs
- Stanberry: Scrap Metal Sculptures
- Stanton: Jesse James Wax Museum
- Stanton: Meramec Caverns
- Stanton: Riverside Wildlife and Reptile Center
- Steelville: 1990 U.S. Population Center
- Steelville: Canoe Art in Missouri's Floating Capital
- Strafford: Wild Animal Safari, formerly Exotic Animal Paradise
- Sumner: Maxie, the World's Largest Goose
- Syracuse: 2,000 foot Tall Tower
- Tebbetts: Unofficial 2010 U.S. Population Center
- Tightwad: Town Bank with Ironic Name
- Tipton: 8-Ball Water Tower
- University City: Fish on a Bicycle
- Uranus: Mega Mayor Muffler Man
- Uranus: Uranus
- Valley Park: Cowboy Muffler Man
- Walnut Shade: Branson Cross: Largest in America
- Warrensburg: Blind Boone Statue and Park
- Warrensburg: Old Drum, Johnson County Old Courthouse
- Warrensburg: Statue of Old Drum, Unselfish Dog
- Warrensburg: Strange Steel Drum Family
- Washington: Corn Cob Pipe Museum
- Washington: Iron Spike Model Train Museum
- Waynesville: Frog Rock
- Waynesville: Giant Bowling Pin
- Webb City: Giant Hands in Prayer
- Webb City: Kneeling Miner
- Weldon Spring: Nuclear Waste Adventure Trail
- Wentzville: Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame and Museum
- West Alton: Smallpox Island Memorial
- West Line: West Line South, A Tiny Town
- Weston: Largest Ball of String, Not Twine
- Windsor: Sleep in a Caboose
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...
- Bonne Terre: Giant Animal Cluster
- Branson West: Branson Interactive Zoo aka Predator World
- Branson: Branson's Gravity Hill
- Branson: Concrete Pink Gorilla
- Branson: Kirby VanBurch, Prince of Magic Show
- Branson: Motel Shaped Like a Riverboat
- Branson: Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum
- Branson: Segway Adventure Center
- Branson: The Amazing Frederick
- Branson: Tony Melendez - Guitarist with No Arms
- Branson: Waltzing Waters
- Branson: Yakov Smirnoff Theatre
- Canton: Oldest Continually Operating Ferry on the Mississippi
- Charleston: Car Wrapped Around RR pole
- Charleston: World's Largest Ball of Human Hair
- Columbia: Neon: Arrow Head Motel
- Cuba: Bob's Gasoline Alley
- Cuba: Neon Bucking Bronco Sign
- Doolittle: Cookin' from Scratch Chicken Car
- Farmington: Giant Animal Cluster
- Hannibal: Haunted House on Hill Street Wax Museum
- Hazelwood: First Due Fire Museum
- Hazelwood: Psychedelic Mall
- Highlandville: World's Smallest Cathedral
- Independence: Leila's Hair Museum
- Ironton: Ike the Crossroads Dog
- Jefferson City: Big Pacifier Made of Cigarette Butts
- Kansas City: Star Wars At-At Walker Mailbox
- Kansas City: World's Largest Concrete Soccer Ball
- Keytesville: Roadway Cautionary Woman
- Lake Ozark: Mystery Spot - Crazy Cousins Cabin
- Plevna: Lone Horseman of Plevna
- Poplar Bluff: Call Of The Wild
- Reeds Spring: Museum of the Unexplained
- Republic: Lanning Sculpture Garden
- Richland: Cave Restaurant [formerly Caveman BBQ]
- Rolla: A&W Burger Family
- Rolla: Giant Camera
- Rolla: God's Well
- Rolla: Memoryville USA and Antique Car Museum
- Seneca: Giant Milnot Condensed Milk Can
- Springfield: Auto Parts Man, Former Site of Muffler Car
- Springfield: Bill Elliott's 1997 McD's NASCAR
- Springfield: Gigantic Paper Cup
- Springfield: World's Longest Trainspotting Footbridge
- St. Charles: Noah's Ark Restaurant
- St. Louis: Big Unloved Urban Indian
- St. Louis: Giant Farmer Fred and Clyde (In Storage)
- St. Louis: Museum of Quackery
- Wardell: Otay Meter and Museum
- Washington: World's Largest Hot Dog Cart
- Willow Springs: Fire Museum of Missouri
