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Shelburne Museum: Landlocked Ship
Shelburne, Vermont
Electra Havemeyer Webb's crazy collection of everything, includes an immense sidewheel ship dragged onto dry land.
Granite Sculptures of Hope Cemetery
Barre, Vermont
Stone carvers of the "Granite Capital of the World" have left their mark on a local burial ground.
Bread and Puppet Museum - Creepy Giant Puppets
Glover, Vermont
Gracefully decaying collection of giant, German Expressionist puppets in an old barn.
Queen Connie: Gorilla and Beetle
Leicester, Vermont
A concrete King Kong that's traded-in Fay Wray for an old-style Volkswagen.
Bug Art of John Hampson
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
An obscure New Jersey machinist spent decades making art out of dead bugs. The only place you can see his work is here.
Ben & Jerry's Factory Tour and Flavor Graveyard
Waterbury, Vermont
It's hard to go wrong with a tour of an ice cream factory. And pay your respects at the "Flavor Graveyard" out back.
Tallest Thing in Vermont
Bennington, Vermont
306-foot-tall tower commemorates a Revolutionary War battle that was actually fought across the state line in New York.
Phineas Gage: A Rod Went Through His Skull
Cavendish, Vermont
One of America's oddest celebrities is Phineas P. Gage, who had a metal rod blown through his head and lived to get cranky about it.
Bowman Mausoleum's Mourning Man
Cuttingsville, Vermont
John P. Bowman's extravagant 19th century mausoleum, eternally attended by himself as a marble mourning man.
Feegee Mermaid, Dueling Frogs
Grafton, Vermont
Fantastic beasts in an otherwise normal nature museum. Not displayed, but you can still ask to see the half-human/half-fish, extinct Carolina Parakeet, and dueling frogs.
New England Maple Syrup Museum
Pittsford, Vermont
The secrets of New England's gooey gold -- revealed in mind-numbing detail. Opened in 1977.
Vermontasaurus
Post Mills, Vermont
Built of scrap wood in 2010, it has grown over the years to 160 feet long. Looks like a collapsed barn with feet. Now joined by five additional dinosaurs.
Santa's Land USA
Putney, Vermont
Home of Purple Plum Man, one of our favorite kiddieland sculptures. Opened in 1957, closed in 2011 and again in 2013, reopened in late 2017.
The Dog Chapel
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
The late Stephen Huneck's artsy Dog Mountain includes a canine chapel where there is "No Dogma Allowed."