Washington Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Washington. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Richland | Seattle | Spokane
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Aberdeen: Charlie Choker, Big Mascot - Aberdeen: International Mermaid Museum
- Aberdeen: Kurt Cobain Tributes - Concrete Guitar
- Aberdeen: Where Kurt Cobain Lived in a Refrigerator Box
- Allyn: Largest Collection of Chainsaw Carvings
- Anacortes: Lady Of The Sea Statue
- Anacortes: Overgrown Ship Hulk
- Anacortes: Salmon Trash Cans
- Arlington: Christmas Tree and Kangaroo Farm
- Arlington: Hippie Bus Tree Shrine
- Arlington: Walk-Thru Stump, Former Drive-Thru
- Ashford: Ex Nihilo: Recycled Spirits of Iron
- Auburn: Coffee Pot Coffee House
- Auburn: Giant Crow with French Fries
- Bainbridge Island: Frog Rock
- Bainbridge Island: Pia the Peacekeeper: Giant Troll
- Bellevue: Giant Tiki Head
- Bellevue: Temple of Stones - Nudge a Stonehenge
- Bellingham: Acid Ball
- Bellingham: Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon Rocket
- Bellingham: Lightning Cage: Spark Museum of Electrical Invention
- Bellingham: Man Humping Bear
- Blaine: International Peace Arch
- Bonney Lake: Skystone - Mysterious Astro-Rock
- Bow: Driftwood Menagerie of Joe Treat
- Bremerton: Ghost Fleet of Navy Ships
- Bremerton: USS Turner Joy: Infamous Destroyer
- Brinnon: World's Largest Clam Pile
- Burlington: Bigfoot Museum
- Burlington: Children's Church - Ark-Shaped
- Carnation: Camlann Medieval Village
- Carnation: World's Champion Milk Cow Statue
- Cashmere: Cashmere Museum and Pioneer Village
- Cashmere: Spirit of America 9/11 Memorial
- Cedar Grove: Samurai of Iron
- Centralia: Auto Parts Man
- Centralia: Shady Lady Bordello Museum
- Chehalis: Historical Yard Bird
- Chehalis: Right-Wing Uncle Sam Billboard
- Chehalis: Yard Bird Statues
- Chelan: Frankenstein Rock
- Chelan: Indian Chief Hoists Fish Over Head
- Colfax: The Codger Pole
- Concrete: Drive Under a High School
- Concrete: Welcome to Concrete: Silo Park
- Connell: Wildlife Of Connell: Otterness
- Copalis Beach: Copalis State Beach Airport
- Cougar: Ape Cave Lava Tube
- Coulee City: Earth's Largest Waterfall, No Water
- Coulee City: Lonely Shoe Tree
- Coulee Dam: Grand Coulee Dam Laser Light Show
- Coupeville: Price Sculpture Forest
- Coupeville: See Whale, Ring Whale Bell
- Coupeville: Tree Slab Of Renown
- Creston: Tiny Chapel
- Dayton: Hillside Jolly Green Giant
- Des Moines: Big Catch: Half-Woman, Half-Fish
- Des Moines: Maury Island UFO Mural
- Disautel Pass: Sasquatch On Outcrop
- East Wenatchee: Lincoln Rock
- Eastsound: Orca Killer Whale
- Edmonds: Moon Walk Monument
- Edmonds: Tourists with Sea Gulls on Heads, and Other Art
- Elbe: Tiny Church
- Electric City: Auto Parts Family and "The Muffler Man"
- Electric City: Gehrke's Windmill Folk Art
- Elk: The Robot Hut
- Ellensburg: 1936 Gas Station Mod
- Ellensburg: Bull Sitting on Bench Photo Op
- Ellensburg: Dick and Jane's Spot
- Ellensburg: Hi-way Grille Neon Sign
- Ellensburg: Kitt Coyote Statue
- Ellensburg: Statue of the Sign Language Chimp
- Ellensburg: Tour a Wind Farm
- Elma: Satsop Abandoned Nuclear Plant
- Entiat: Earthquake Point
- Entiat: Numeral Mountain
- Everett: Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum: SpaceShipOne
- Everett: Flying Saucer With Transporter Beam
- Everett: Muffler Man: Ralph the Stevedore Man
- Everett: Pyramid Tomb of the Ruckers
- Fairhaven: Dirty Dan Harris Statue
- Forks: Forks Timber Museum, Loggers Memorial
- Forks: John's Beachcombing Museum
- Forks: Twilight Movie Vampire Town
- Friday Harbor: World's Skinniest Latte Shop
- George: George, Washington
- Gig Harbor: Galloping Gertie Relics
- Granger: 9/11 Twin Towers Plus Dinosaurs
- Granger: Dinosaur Town With Volcano
- Granite Falls: Mural by Teenage Chris Pratt
- Hanford Nuclear Reservation: Historic Nuclear B Reactor
- Hobart: Yellow Submarine
- Hoquiam: Grizzly Bear Statue
- Index: Statue - Friendly Bigfoot
- Issaquah: Treehouse Point
- Issaquah: Triple XXX Root Beer Drive-in
- Kalaloch: World's Largest Western Red Cedar Tree
- Kalama: A Very Long Totem Pole
- Kennewick: Banged-Up 9/11 Memorial
- Kennewick: Lower Half of Whitney Southwick
- Kennewick: Newsboy Statue
- Kent: Moon Park
- Keyport: Naval Undersea Museum
- Kid Valley: Bigfoot and the Buried A-Frame
- Kingston: Fish Wearing Pants, other Krazy Kreatures
- Kirkland: Cow and Coyote Dress-Up Statues
- La Conner: Statue of "Dirty Biter" the Dog
- La Grande: Indian Henry's Grave Monument
- Lake City: Monument: Will Rogers' Last Polo Match
- Lakewood: Strip Mall Martyr Rock
- Leavenworth: Bavarian-Themed Town
- Leavenworth: Giant Suit of Armor
- Leavenworth: Nutcracker Museum
- Lind: Combine Demolition Derby
- Littlerock: Mysterious Mima Mounds
- Long Beach: Clark and Ten-Foot-Long Dead Fish
- Long Beach: Marsh's Free Museum
- Long Beach: The Pirates Keep
- Long Beach: Wooden Mermaid
- Long Beach: World's Largest Frying Pan
- Long Beach: World's Largest Spitting Clam
- Long Beach: World's Longest Drivable Beach
- Longview: Front Yard Chainsaw Bigfoot
- Longview: Nutty Narrows - Squirrel Bridges
- Lyman: Horniest Tavern of the Northwest
- Lynden: Full-Size Dutch Windmill
- Lynden: Tiny Church
- Lynnwood: Accordion Museum
- Lynnwood: Pants-on-Fire Blues Brothers
- Manson: Danger: Falling Cows
- Manson: Fanfare for the Common Duck
- Marblemount: Wildwood Chapel - Tiny Church
- Marblemount: Woodcarved Bigfoot
- Maryhill: Sam Hill's Stonehenge
- Menlo: The Pickled Pioneer
- Metaline Falls: Shoe Tree
- Mineral: Smallest Post Office in the U.S.
- Monroe: The Reptile Zoo
- Moses Lake: Farm Junk Mammoth Skeleton
- Mount Vernon: Unstaffed Honor Cider Store
- Mt. Vernon: Construction Crane Building
- Mt. Vernon: Giant Tulips
- Mukilteo: Huge Paper Airplane
- Mukilteo: Tour the Boeing Factory
- Newhalem: Temple of Power
- North Bend: Twin Peaks Diner, Pies
- North Bonneville: Bigfoot Family
- North Bonneville: Evil Lab from Short Circuit: Stand on Live Generator
- Oak Harbor: Flintstone Car
- Oak Harbor: Sidewalk Sea Monster
- Ocean City: Blue Eyed Surf'n Sasquatches
- Ocean Shores: Sharky's Shark Head Entrance
- Okanogan: Curtis Sheep Slaughter Was Here
- Olga: Skeleton in Old Car, and More
- Olympia: Metal Cattle
- Olympia: Photo Props at Burger Shack
- Olympia: Run of Giant Fiberglass Salmon
- Omak: Native American Scene At Gas Station
- Omak: Omak Rock
- Omak: Rodeo Walk of Fame
- Packwood: Prayer Park
- Pasco: Bender Mailbox
- Plymouth: Walk-Thru Railroad Tunnel
- Point Roberts: Historical Rubber Duck Museum
- Pomeroy: Muffler Man Indian Chief
- Pomeroy: Rainbow Man: Cowboy Muffler Man
- Pomeroy: Uniroyal Gal with Tattoo
- Port Angeles: Carved Tree Faces
- Port Angeles: Crawl-Thru Outdoor Whale Vertebra
- Port Angeles: Rocktopus
- Port Gamble: Of Sea and Shore Museum
- Port Hadlock: Fake Airplane Landing
- Port Orchard: Fake Barnyard of Gaudy Animals
- Port Orchard: Hobbit Hut
- Port Orchard: Minions House
- Port Townsend: Eaglemount Rockery: Mini-Wonderland
- Port Townsend: Fat Smitty's Restaurant
- Port Townsend: Old Jail Cells
- Port Townsend: Plywood Dog
- Port Townsend: Worried Buoy
- Poulsbo: 12-Foot-Tall Concrete Viking
- Poulsbo: Statue of Viking King Olaf
- Prosser: Gravity Hill
- Pullman: Real Grizzly Bears
- Puyallup: Deadbeat Cruisers
- Puyallup: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Puyallup: The Open Heart
- Quilcene: Pearl of the Peninsula Art Park
- Quinault: Valley of the Rainforest Giants
- Raymond: Northwest Carriage Museum
- Raymond: Town of Metal People
- Raymond: Willapa Seaport Museum
- Redondo: 1962 Seattle World's Fair Bubbleator
- Renton: Erasmus the Rooftop Dragon
- Renton: Grave of Jimi Hendrix
- Renton: Lovely Sewage Plant Grotto
- Renton: U-Haul Space Needle
- Richland: USS Triton Sub Surfaces
- Ridgefield: Jefferson Davis Highway Markers
- Ridgefield: Little Golden Gate Bridge
- Ridgefield: Rival Birthplace of U-Haul
- Ritzville: Horseshoe Stagecoach and Team
- Ritzville: Lasting Legacy Wildlife Museum
- Ritzville: License Plate Spangled Banner
- Roche Harbor: Afterglow Vista Mausoleum - Strange Grave
- Roslyn: Marlon Brando Motorcycle Mural
- Roslyn: Northern Exposure TV Town
- Seattle: 46-Foot-Tall Squished Head
- Seattle: Archie McPhee Catalog Store
- Seattle: Aurora Elephant
- Seattle: B.F. Day Tile Mural
- Seattle: Baby vs. Burrito
- Seattle: Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop
- Seattle: Berlin Wall Slab
- Seattle: Big Japanese Robot
- Seattle: Big Paddle Ball
- Seattle: Birthplace of UPS
- Seattle: Bridgetender Rapunzel in Neon
- Seattle: Bronze Statue of Jimi Hendrix
- Seattle: Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum
- Seattle: Dance Steps in the Sidewalk
- Seattle: Dinosaur Topiary
- Seattle: Equality - Prosperity vs. Wretchedness
- Seattle: Fish Ladder Viewing Room
- Seattle: Food Court Berlin Wall
- Seattle: Fremont Center of the Universe Sign
- Seattle: Fremont Rocket
- Seattle: Giant Red Twin Popsicle
- Seattle: Giant Shoe Museum
- Seattle: Giant Shovel
- Seattle: Graves of Bruce and Brandon Lee
- Seattle: Great White Fleet of 1908
- Seattle: Gum Wall
- Seattle: Hammering Man
- Seattle: Hat n' Boots
- Seattle: House That Would Not Move
- Seattle: King Crimson Mouth
- Seattle: Late for the Interurban
- Seattle: Lenin Statue
- Seattle: MoPOP: Museum of Pop Culture
- Seattle: Motel Where Kurt Cobain Shot Heroin
- Seattle: Neon: Pink Elephant Car Wash
- Seattle: Official Bad Art Museum of Art
- Seattle: Orient Express: FDR's Train Car
- Seattle: Pac-Man Park
- Seattle: Park Bench Tribute to Kurt Cobain
- Seattle: Parking Squid
- Seattle: RE-PC Computer Museum
- Seattle: Rooftop Saturn
- Seattle: Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
- Seattle: Seattle Pinball Museum
- Seattle: Seattle Underground Tour
- Seattle: Site of a Hooverville
- Seattle: Soul Pole
- Seattle: Sound Garden
- Seattle: Space Needle
- Seattle: Spite House
- Seattle: Statue Of Liberty Plaza
- Seattle: Statue of Viking Leif Erickson
- Seattle: Strange Creatures and Naked Humans
- Seattle: Submarine Relics: The Fin Project
- Seattle: Taejonjeong: Korea Sister City Gift
- Seattle: The Fremont Troll
- Seattle: Unity Museum
- Seattle: Waiting for the Interurban
- Seattle: Wall of Death
- Seattle: Wallingford Wildlife Totem Pole
- Seattle: World Flight Monument
- Seattle: World's Fair Monorail
- Seattle: World's First Service Station Site
- Seattle: World's Largest Trophy Cup
- Seattle: World's Oldest Starbucks
- Seattle: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
- Sekiu: Gil the Running Fish
- Sekiu: Killer Whale Lawn Pod
- Sekiu: Rosie: Fish with Legs and Dress
- Sequim: Bandy's Troll Haven
- Sequim: Manis Mastodon Site
- Sequim: Olympic Game Farm
- Sequim: Spend a Night in a Caboose
- Shelton: Big Metal Pig
- Shelton: Muffler Man - Bunyan
- Silver Lake: Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
- Skamania: 4,000 Rosaries
- Snohomish: Car Parts Metal Welder
- Snoqualmie: The Big Log
- Snoqualmie: Twin Peaks TV Waterfall
- Soap Lake: Largest Human Sundial
- Soap Lake: Robot With Rocket
- Soap Lake: Rugged Terrain Golf Course
- South Bend: World's Largest Oyster
- Spirit Lake: Spirit Lake Volcano Destruction
- Spokane Valley: Giant British Phone Booth
- Spokane Valley: St. Joseph Mini Castle
- Spokane: 1939 Ice Cream Shop With Old Toys
- Spokane: Banner of Service - 9/11 Memorial
- Spokane: Bing Crosby Boyhood Home and Museum
- Spokane: Fallen Astronaut Hero
- Spokane: Garbage Goat of the Welding Nun
- Spokane: Giant Red Wagon
- Spokane: Jedi Alliance: Church of Jediism
- Spokane: Milk Bottle Building #1
- Spokane: Milk Bottle Building #2
- Spokane: Statue of Victim of Sewage Tank Collapse
- Spokane: Steel Yard Art
- Spokane: Way Out West Statue Farm
- Sprague: V1 Rocket/Space Jet on a Stick
- Sultan: Sultan John: 13-Foot-Tall Man with Fish
- Sultan: Wayside Chapel - Tiny Church
- Sumas: Gold Prospector Statue
- Sumas: Statue of the Coffee Lady
- Sumner: Drive-Thru Chapel
- Tacoma: 20-Foot-Tall Welcome Giantess
- Tacoma: Bing Crosby's Birthplace
- Tacoma: Bob's Java Jive: Giant Coffee Pot
- Tacoma: Chihuly Bridge of Glass
- Tacoma: Concrete Fantasia
- Tacoma: Korean Bible Figures
- Tacoma: LeMay: America's Car Museum
- Tacoma: Proper Role of Man and Fish Statue
- Tacoma: Shell from the USS Maine
- Tacoma: Shrine to Tacoma's Super-Salesman
- Tacoma: Statue of Earthquake Hero Kid
- Tacoma: Tacoma's Unwelcome Goddess of Commerce
- Tacoma: World Globe 9/11 Memorial
- Tenino: Monarch Sculpture Park
- Toledo: Gospodor Monuments
- Toppenish: Toppenish Murals: Man vs Bear
- Toppenish: Yakima Nation Museum and Teepees
- Touche: Twin Sisters Rock
- Toutle: Statue of the Tree Planter
- Tukwila: Walk-Thru Space Shuttle
- Twisp: Beeest: Yellow Jacket On A Pole
- Twisp: Taxidermy-Filled Grocery Store
- Union: Yard Bird, Now a Farm Bird
- University Place: Chief Seattle Computer Bust
- Vancouver: Devil-ish Little Things Museum
- Vancouver: Taxidermy Wooden Moose
- Vancouver: Wacky McWiener
- Vancouver: Wendy the Welder - Striding Cubist Lady Worker Statue
- Vantage: Ginkgo Gem Shop Dinosaurs
- Vantage: Wild Stallion Sculptures
- Vashon Island: Bicycle Eaten by Tree
- Vashon: Chainsaw Schizophrenic Statue
- Vashon: Sleep in a Covered Wagon or Teepee
- Waitsburg: Orchestra Barn
- Walla Walla: Bizarro X Tombstone
- Walla Walla: Melody Muffler Sculptures
- Walla Walla: Museum of Un-Natural History
- Walla Walla: Whitman Massacre Site Interpretive Center
- Waterville: Lumpy Dowser Statue
- Wenatchee: Coyote Reading A Candy Wrapper
- Wenatchee: Helpful Coyote Saves the Salmon
- Wenatchee: Statue of Guppo the Clown
- Wenatchee: Triceratops
- Westport: Lighthouse Retreating from the Ocean
- White Salmon: Almost Bavarian Town
- Wilbur: Wilbur the Pig
- Wilkeson: Bacon and Eggs Skatepark
- Winlock: World's Largest Egg
- Winthrop: Old West Themed Town
- Woodland: Grist Mill "Free" Bag of Flour
- Yakima: Pistol Sign: Bonnie And Clyde's Muffler
- Yakima: Rooftop Burger, Fries, and Pepsi
- Zillah: Church of God-Zillah
- Zillah: Teapot Dome Gas Station
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...
- Aberdeen: Kurt Cobain Relics
- Arlington: Coffee Pot Hut
- Auburn: Banana Museum
- Auburn: Flaming Geyser
- Bothell: 20-Foot-Tall Polka-Dot Chicken
- Bow: Ghost Bicycle Fence
- Centralia: Giant Pencil
- Centralia: RichArt's Art Yard
- Ellensburg: Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute
- Ephrata: Boat-Truck
- Issaquah: Buddy Holly's Bus
- Kent: Mythical Guardian and Giant Penguin Made of Spoons
- La Conner: John Wayne's Yacht
- Long Beach: World's Largest Chopsticks
- Maltby: Tall Latte Cup-Shaped Espresso Drive Thru
- Moses Lake: House of Poverty Museum
- Mount Vernon: Biggest Hedge Maze in North America
- Olympia: Black Light Miniature Golf
- Olympia: Chiropractic Bigfoot
- Pataha: Plate Metal Creatures
- Puyallup: Dinosaur Theme McDonald's
- Renton: Office Park Stonehenge
- Richland: CREHST Museum - Atomic Marbles
- Rockport: Self-Kicking Machine
- Seattle: Drinking Man
- Seattle: Giant Typewriter Eraser
- Seattle: Goodwill Stuffed Grizzly Bear
- Seattle: Human Toe Truck
- Seattle: Live! Lady Bugs
- Seattle: Naked Trump Statue
- Seattle: Seattle Museum of the Mysteries
- Seattle: Soviet "Cobra" Submarine
- Seattle: Theo Chocolate Factory Tour
- Seattle: Twin Teepees Restaurant
- Seattle: Walker Rock Garden
- Seattle: World's Ugliest Statue of Columbus
- Spokane: Boris Borzum: 16-Foot-Tall Metal Man
- Spokane: Marvin Carr's One of a Kind in the World Museum
- Tacoma: Midland Mosaics - Backyard Giants
- Tacoma: Never Never Land
- Tacoma: Please Stand for our National Anthem
- Tacoma: Tree Trunk Tribute to The Hobbit
- Thornwood: Personal Tiger Zoo
- Toppenish: Totem Pole House
- Toutle: Mt. St. Helens Miracle Survivor Car
- Twisp: Old Truck Billboard
- Vashon: Home Gym Retirement Vista
- Wenatchee: Eye-Rolling and Winking Indian Billboard
- Yacolt: Train Engine Stuck in Store
