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San Antonio, Texas - World's Largest Cowboy Boots
The World's Largest Cowboy Boots are ready to kick s**t at the North Star Mall.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...
North Star Mall
- Address:
- 7400 San Pedro Ave., San Antonio, TX
- Directions:
- North Star Mall. South side of I-410. Exits 20B (driving west) or 20 (driving east). Drive along the one-way eastbound frontage road (on the south side of I-410).
- RA Rates:
- Major Fun
- Aberdeen, Washington - Kurt Cobain Relics
The Crying Kurt Cobain Made of Cement sculpture is no longer at the Aberdeen Museum of History. The gentleman working there says it was taken back by the original owner and sold to someone in Seattle. There is a nice Nirvana/Kurt Cobain themed mural, the original bench from Viretta Park, and a couch that Kurt allegedly slept on during his adolescent wanderings. The museum also has some nice exhibits and vehicles from Aberdeen's past.
[Don, 07/01/2017]Kurt Cobain Relics:- Directions:
- Aberdeen Museum of History. North side of downtown, in the old city armory. On the south side of E. 3rd St. between N. Broadway and N. I Sts.
- Hours:
- Museum burned down June 9, 2018.
- Status:
- Gone
Anacortes, Washington - Overgrown Ship Hulk
This was amazing and so worth the trip from Seattle. The natives of Anacortes don't even seem to acknowledge it any more. Driving on the road, you probably wouldn't know it was ship, since it's so overgrown -- but knowing it is really makes it spectacular. I walked down the gang plank right to the ship and no one stopped me.
[Connie from Seattle, 03/21/2013]Overgrown Ship Hulk:- Address:
- 3022 Oakes Ave., Anacortes, WA
- Directions:
- Lovric's Sea-Craft. North side of Hwy 20/Oakes Ave. on the way to the ferry docks that service the San Juan Islands and Vancouver, Canada. Difficult to see from the highway; drive down a dirt side road and you'll see it. Trail to the left of the boatyard leads to it.
- Phone:
- 360-293-2042
- Chehalis, Washington - Weird Right-Wing Uncle Sam Billboard
I've been observing this "outsider art" masterpiece for years, on the land of a farmer, Hamilton. Sold his farm a few years ago but gave himself an easement so he could change the messages. It's designed to raise the hackles of those traveling between the lefty hotbeds of anywhere in Oregon and the Olympia-Tacoma-Seattle area. There is a crude illustration of Uncle Sam on both sides and room for letters like on any theatre marquee or muffler shop signboard --messages of a far-right-wing bent.
[Don Jankiewicz, 02/03/2002]Right-Wing Uncle Sam Billboard:- Address:
- Rush Rd., Chehalis, WA
- Directions:
- I-5 exit 72, turn east, then turn left onto Rush Rd. The billboard will be on the right.
- Des Moines, Washington - Fish with Human Breasts Statue
South of Seattle in downtown Des Moines, WA, west of I-5 and just off the Puget Sound, is a small shopping center. In front of the QFC supermarket is a bronze statue about 5 feet tall of an elderly fisherman in joyful embrace of a fish that is nearly his size. The interesting thing is that the fish has human female breasts. The liveliness of the pose of the figures is what makes the statue so charming and appealing. It created some controversy but overall the statue is inoffensive.
[Stephen T. Scanlon, 09/04/1997]Big Catch: Half-Woman, Half-Fish:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- 21815 Marine View Drive, Des Moines, WA
- Directions:
- I-5 exit 149A. Drive west on 516 to 509, then north. On the west side of Hwy 509/Marine View Drive, just south of S. 218th St. Park in the supermarket lot.
- Admission:
- Free
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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The ship has a "Danger" sign next to it, so walking up to it for snapshots is apparently okay, but no climbing.