Nebraska

11 articles

Browse the best Nebraska roadside attractions, tourist traps, road food, and more at Silly America. Plan your next road trip through Nebraska and find all the most iconic (and silliest) sites along the way!

I've never met a Dino I didn't love ♥️♥️♥️⁠
Check out this CARANTULA! 🚗🕷️⁠ ⁠ (Thank you @jackirock for the caption inspiration!)⁠ ⁠ Learn more: LINK IN BIO!
Chilly days make me wish I was somewhere warmer! Somewhere like Hawaii!⁠ ⁠ This is a photo from the Southernmost Point in the U.S.: Ka Lae on Big Island, Hawaii.⁠ ⁠ Learn more: LINK IN BIO!⁠
Cheers from Des Moines! I always love a good “greetings from” postcard mural (like these in Chicago and Austin) so I just had to check out this Cheers from Des Moines mural in Iowa while stopping in town on a road trip.⁠ ⁠ Learn more: LIN IN BIO!
Since I first visited Pink Elephant Antique Mall in Livingston, Illinois, their lawn has exploded with roadside attractions. But you can still find this big pink elephant (though he might be an even brighter pink these days!).⁠ ⁠ Read more: LINK IN BIO!
5 facts about me:⁠ - I have visited over 300 roadside attractions.⁠ - I have visited 35 countries and once spent 3 years traveling around the world.⁠ - I have two cats, Rooney and Ford.⁠ - I have five tattoos (but want more...including one of my cats 😹)⁠ - Outside of travel, I have lived in Illinois (Chicago, suburbs, or down state) my entire life.⁠ ⁠ What are some facts about you?⁠
Talk about a tall drink of water: a giant paper cup (perhaps even the world’s largest paper cup) once stood as the entrance to the Solo Cup company offices in Springfield, Missouri. ⁠ ⁠ I hope you were able to take a few photos (and a big gulp) of the giant Solo cup while you could: Solo Cup Co. closed the plant, the building was bought out and, in 2015, the giant Solo paper cup was demolished.⁠ ⁠ Read more: LINK IN BIO!
Just off of I-80 in Iowa is Agri-Symbol Park, a small walking path and picnic area with plants and benches and a gazebo, next to a rest stop and gas station and Old Stone Arch Nature Trail. It’s here that the world’s largest corn stalk lives and, being so tall that it stretches into the sky, it’s visible from the highway and hard to miss.⁠ ⁠ Read more: LINK IN BIO!
On September 4, 1928 Amelia Earhart made a forced emergency landing in Cuba, Missouri. This is one of many scenes captured in mural form throughout Cuba, Missouri, AKA “Route 66 Mural City”. ⁠ ⁠ (Ryle’s Carwash, West Washington on Route 66) (artist: Shelly Smith Steiger and Julie Balogh Brand)⁠ ⁠ Read more: LINK IN BIO!⁠