Roadside Oddities

Roadside Oddities

What Is The Thing? Driving between Texas and Arizona, you can't miss the signs for The Thing. Giant billboards at the side of the road ask, “ The Thing? What is it?" Whatever else it is, The Thing is one of thousands of roadside attractions around the world. Roadside attractions are weird and wonderful. They invite people to stop and check them out.

World's Largest Baseball Bat The world's largest baseball bat leans over a five-story building in Kentucky. The bat is 120 feet (37 m) tall and weighs more than 68, 000 pounds (30, 844 kg). It's a huge replica of the bat used by the famous baseball player Babe Ruth.

The Corn Palace At the Corn Palace in South Dakota, they create art out of corn. Every year, the outside of the building is decorated with local grains and grasses. The Corn Palace is also the world's largest bird feeder. When winter begins, the birds and squirrels eat the art!

Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum Do you have a spare toilet seat lying around the house? If so, you can bring it to Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum in Texas. Barney opened the museum in 1992. It holds more than one thousand toilet seats Barney Smith has made into works of art.

Lucy the Elephant In 1881, James Lafferty built the world's largest elephant in New Jersey. Lucy is a six-story building covered with 12, 000 square feet (3, 658 sq m) of metal. You can still climb inside Lucy the Elephant today.