Rhode Island
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Top Rated Attractions
Tree Root That Ate Roger Williams
Providence, Rhode Island
The founder of Rhode Island was devoured by an apple tree -- or so the claim goes.
World's Largest Bug
Providence, Rhode Island
"Nibbles Woodaway," a giant blue termite, promotes the extermination acumen of New England Pest Control.
Mystery Tower of Newport
Newport, Rhode Island
Did stone-stacking Vikings erect this knobby tower? Or perhaps the Knights Templar, or globe-trotting Chinese? It endures as one of America's oldest and most mysterious attractions.
Fighting Seabee Statue
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Rhode Island's other giant insect, this bee in a sailor's cap is ready for action.
The Feet and the Wave
Newport, Rhode Island
A bronze sculpture of feet sticking out of a breaking wave; a popular photo-op.
JFK's Rejected Grave Slab
Newport, Rhode Island
A slab that didn't make the cut for JFK's Arlington National Cemetery memorial survives.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
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- Block Island: Mass Grave of Pirate Massacre [tips]
- Block Island: Perpetually Painted Rock [tips]
- Bristol: The Most Famous Tombstone In New England [tips]
- Chepachet: Memorial to Little Bett the Elephant
- Chepachet: Potato Head Elephant Tribute [tips]
- Cumberland: Best Place on Earth to Find Cumberlandite [tips]
- Cumberland: Nine Men's Misery Monument [tips]
- Exeter: Grave of a Suspected Vampire [tips]
- Exeter: Scrap Metal Scorpion [tips]
- Foster: Highest Point in Rhode Island [tips]
- Glendale: World's Oldest Penny Arcade [tips]
- Little Compton: Cow Vomit Rope On Display [tips]
- Little Compton: Peggotty - Art Boat Thing [tips]
- Manville: Milk Can - Bottle Building [tips]
- Middletown: Bruce the Shark [tips]
- Middletown: Grave of the Kissing Sailor [tips]
- Narragansett: Rust - Corrosion Test Facility
- Narragansett: Peter Toth Indian Head [tips]
- Newport: Mystery Tower of Newport
- Newport: Newport Tower Museum
- Newport: Belcourt Castle: Haunted Chairs [tips]
- Newport: The Feet and the Wave
- Newport: JFK's Rejected Grave Slab
- Newport: Bronze Organ Grinder and Monkey [tips]
- North Kingstown: Fighting Seabee Statue
- North Smithfield: Vampire Grasp Grave of Simon Whipple Aldrich [tips]
- Pawtucket: The Historic Modern Diner [tips]
- Pawtucket: Hollywood Walk of Fame [tips]
- Pawtucket: Happy Dentures [tips]
- Portsmouth: Potato Heads [tips]
- Providence: Tree Root That Ate Roger Williams
- Providence: World's Largest Bug
- Providence: H.P. Lovecraft's Grave [tips]
- Providence: Plymouth Rock of Rhode Island Blown Up Here
- Providence: Big Kodiak Bear [tips]
- Providence: Cannon With Jammed Cannonball [tips]
- Providence: Grave of Roger Williams [tips]
- Providence: Giant Bronze Wildcat
- Providence: Furnished Tomb of General Hawkins [tips]
- Providence: The Gun Totem [tips]
- South Kingstown: Mysterious Carter Jackson Monument
- Wakefield: Hitler's Gravy Boat, Himmler's Nightshirt [tips]
- Warren: Regular Joe the Potato Head [tips]
- Warwick: Happy Flying Family
- Warwick: Rooftop Tin Man [tips]
- Warwick: Red Hot Potato Head [tips]
- West Greenwich: Firefighter Potato Head [tips]
- West Kingston: Great Swamp Massacre Monument
- West Warwick: Station Nightclub Memorial [tips]
- Westerly: Ruth Buzzi Park Bench [tips]
- Wickford: Narragansett Rune Stone [tips]
- Woonsocket: Statue of Hachiko, Faithful Dog [tips]
- Woonsocket: Sistine Chapel of Rhode Island [tips]
- Woonsocket: Angular Abe: Sit Inside Lincoln [tips]
- Woonsocket: Rose Ferron Museum: America's Stigmatic [tips]
