Nebraska Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Nebraska. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports.
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Ainsworth: Restored 1920s Conoco Gas Station - Ainsworth: Steel Hamburger Guy
- Ainsworth: Welded Steel Man
- Alda: Monument: Where Brothers Were Pinned Together By An Arrow
- Alliance: Carhenge
- Alliance: Dobby's Frontier Town
- Arapahoe: Our Lady of Fatima Shrine
- Arthur: Church made of Hay Bales
- Arthur: World's Smallest Courthouse
- Ashland: Jet Fighter on a Pole
- Ashland: Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum
- Auburn: Dairy Sweet Papa Burger
- Aurora: Edgerton Explorit Center: Strobe Alley
- Bassett: Fake Pioneer Town
- Bassett: Restored Phillips 66 Gas Station
- Bayard: Chimney Rock
- Bellevue: World's First B-52G
- Belvidere: Thayer County Museum
- Blair: Tower of the Four Winds
- Boys Town: World's Largest Ball of Stamps
- Burchard: Birthplace of Harold Lloyd
- Burwell: Two-Headed Calf
- Bushnell: Original Lincoln Highway Bridge
- Cairo: Metal Pyramid and Camel
- Chadron: Museum of the Fur Trade
- Chappell: Giant Ice Cream Cone
- Clay Center: Tour: U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
- Columbus: Storming D-Day Beach in Nebraska
- Cozad: 100th Meridian Monument
- Cozad: Elephant
- Crawford: American Flag House
- Deweese: Grave of Dodger the Basset Hound
- Elgin: Bells of the Prairie
- Eli: Petrified Wood Tombstones
- Elkhorn: Brick Lincoln Highway from 1920
- Fairmont: Atomic Bomb Droppers Trained Here
- Gothenburg: Original Pony Express Station
- Gothenburg: Pony Express Straddle Saddle
- Gothenburg: Sod House
- Grand Island: Fred's Flying Circus: Cartoon Cars on Poles
- Grand Island: Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
- Grand Island: Statue of Brothers Pinned Together by an Arrow
- Grand Island: World's Largest Pair of Overalls
- Gretna: Holy Family Shrine
- Gretna: Lighthouse In Landlocked Nebraska
- Hastings: Bigfoot Crossroads of America Museum
- Hastings: Birthplace of Kool-Aid
- Hastings: Kool-Aid Man's Footprints in Cement
- Hastings: Kool-Aid: Discover the Dream
- Hastings: World War II Bomb Depot
- Hebron: World's Largest Covered Porch Swing
- Holdrege: Faceless Fred the Ghost
- Holdrege: Nebraska Prairie Museum: German POW Story
- Holstein: Sod House
- Jackson: Sentinels of the Prairie - Windmills
- Kearney: Brothers Pinned Together by Arrows
- Kearney: Oxen Pull a Prairie Schooner
- Kearney: The Archway
- Lexington: Fall of Saigon, Recreated
- Lincoln: Bald Eagle Tree Stump
- Lincoln: Big, Clanging Head of Bricks
- Lincoln: Giant Paper Airplane
- Lincoln: National Museum of Roller Skating
- Lincoln: Pioneer Pete the Rooster, Piano Requests
- Lincoln: Robbers Cave
- Lincoln: Superman Tree
- Lowell: Boot Hill Cemetery
- Maskell: Smallest City Hall in the U.S.
- Milford: World's Largest Covered Wagon
- Minatare: Beef: King of Meats
- Minden: German POW Urinal
- Minden: Harold Warp's Pioneer Village
- Monowi: Town of 1
- Nebraska City: An Enchanted Arboretum
- Nebraska City: Climb Aboard Lewis & Clark's Boat
- Nebraska City: Kregel Windmill Factory Museum
- Nebraska City: River Country Nature Center: Taxidermy Chicken Coop
- Nebraska City: Tombstone Shaped like a Desk
- Nebraska City: Where The Steam Wagon Broke Down
- Nebraska City: Whispering Bench
- Neligh: Motel Room Wall Damaged by Michael Landon
- Neligh: Pierson Wildlife Museum
- Nelson: Sandstone Faces
- Norfolk: Johnny Carson Gallery
- Norfolk: Johnny Carson Statue, Mural
- North Platte: 20th Century Veterans Memorial
- North Platte: Fort Cody Trading Post
- North Platte: Golden Spike Tower
- North Platte: Muffler Man - Indian
- North Platte: Swimming Pool Shaped Like Nebraska
- Northport: Shoe Fence
- O'Neill: World's Largest Shamrock
- Oconto: Scrap Metal Sculpture Garden
- Ogallala: Front Street Museum
- Ogallala: Petrified Wood Art
- Ogallala: Restored 1922 Service Station
- Ogallala: UFO Water Tower
- Omaha: 15-Foot-Tall Fork with Pasta
- Omaha: 9/11 Wings of Angels, Ball of Hands
- Omaha: Angry Billy Bluejay
- Omaha: Boys in the Plastic Bubbles - Zoo's Gorilla View
- Omaha: Dine While Raccoons Scavenge
- Omaha: Freedom Park - Submarine and Minesweeper on Land
- Omaha: Geese Flight, Wagon Train, Stampede
- Omaha: Gerald Ford Birthplace Mini-Museum
- Omaha: Giant Locomotives
- Omaha: Gondola Ride and Computerized Fountain
- Omaha: Malcolm X Born Here
- Omaha: Monument to Labor
- Omaha: O! Dude: 25 Feet Tall
- Omaha: OMAR the Bridge Troll
- Omaha: Performing Arts Sculptures
- Omaha: Plaque: Japanese Balloon Bomb Exploded Here
- Omaha: Sapp Bros. Coffee Pot
- Omaha: Spinning Yellow Giant
- Omaha: Suzibelle: Uniroyal Gal
- Paxton: Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge
- Peru: Sandstone Cliff Carvings
- Pine Bluffs: Highest Point in Nebraska
- Plainview: Klown Doll Museum
- Potter: 24-Hour Duckpin Bowling
- Royal: Ashfall Fossil Beds
- Scotia: Happy Jack Chalk Mine Tour
- Seward: World's Largest Time Capsule
- Superior: Largest Model Airplane Collection in Nebraska
- Syracuse: 20-Foot-Tall Nutcracker
- Syracuse: Otoe County Museum of Memories
- Taylor: The Villagers
- Thedford: Lost in the Sandhills: Tragic Sisters
- Unadilla: Unadilla Bill, Dead Weather Groundhog
- Union: Tiny Jail
- Valentine: Bridge Held Together By One Pin
- Waterloo: Sleep in a Caboose
- Wilber: The Les Vilda Presidential Museum and Library
- Wymore: Great Plains Welsh Heritage Center
- York: Backyard Zoo
- York: Jet On a Pole
- York: Marble Museum: World's Largest Collection
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...
- Alliance: Rest Area - Hay Bales, Easy Chair, Toilet
- Axtell: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Beatrice: Minion Hay Bale Park Ranger
- Big Springs: Caterpillar of Tires
- Elm Creek: Chevyland U.S.A.
- Friend: Itty-Bitty Police Station
- Gibbon: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Hastings: Andy the Footless Goose
- Kimball: Missile Center USA: ICBM Missile
- Lincoln: Johnson Museum of the Odd
- Lincoln: Peter Toth Indian Head
- Lincoln: Telephone Museum Seen In Yes Man
- Milford: Campground Wooden Teepees
- Milford: Dinosaur Museum
- Milford: Muffler Man
- Nebraska City: John Brown's Cave and Secret Tunnels
- Omaha: 25-Foot-Tall Giant Kissers
- Omaha: Grotto Next to a Mental Hospital
- Omaha: King Kong And Gorilla Family
- Omaha: Sonja Henie's Ice Heart
- Omaha: The HI Tree
- Wahoo: Home Office of The Late Show with David Letterman
