The world's largest otter started his life as a high school shop project.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.

One of the smallest churches in the United States is located along the side of the road in a residential neighborhood.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

A tribute to the disposable cups that were once manufactured here, this 68-foot-tall statue would be difficult to throw away.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.

Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.

A larger-than-life dedication to the famous lumberjack and his loyal ox.

This roadside prairie Statue of Liberty replica is one of the foremost examples of the Boy Scouts of America's "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" campaign.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

The great American road trip, but smaller.