If you love your drinks stirred, not shaken, get ready to drink up and come visit the world’s largest swizzle spoon in Casey, Illinois. Casey, Illinois was already home to six world-record holding roadside attractions (among other equally-impressive large but not world’s largest large things) when, on September 28, 2019, Guinness World Records came to …
Casey, Illinois is a small town known for its big things. The town is home to over thirty roadside attractions, including twelve record holding world’s largest things! While it’s not the biggest big thing in town, you might still say that this one rules them all: the big yardstick. Sometimes a roadside attraction doesn’t measure …
Casey, Illinois is a small town known for its big things. The town is home over thirty roadside attractions, including twelve record holding world’s largest things! These stops are so popular that some of the neighboring towns wanted to get in on the big things bandwagon as well. In next door Martinsville, Illinois, you can …
Casey, Illinois is a small town known for its big things. The town is home to over thirty roadside attractions, including twelve record holding world’s largest things! The big ear of corn might be one of the smallest big things in Casey, but it’s still cream of the crop! The big corn cob was one …
I think that this Illinois roadside attraction is pitch perfect. It’s the World’s Largest Pitchfork in Casey, Illinois. The giant pitchfork can be found near Richards Farm Restaurant in a small town that celebrates big things. Casey, Illinois holds twelve world records for world’s largest things, and this one is 1,940 pound roadside attraction is …
Casey, Illinois is a small town known for its big things. But it wasn’t always that way. Casey used to be just a small town with normal sized things. That is, until Jim Bolin got involved. It all started with one idea and the first big thing in Casey was the World’s Largest Wind Chime. …
Once upon a time the Big Mother Goose at Fejervary Park in Davenport, Iowa belonged to a different Iowa roadside attraction: Mother Goose Land. Mother Goose Land was once a popular Davenport tourist attraction. The nursery-rhyme themed kiddie park and petting zoo was open from the early 1900s into the 1970s with this giant goose …
Grant Wood’s famous painting “American Gothic” depicts a farmer and his daughter standing side by side in front of a farm house. The painting is oft reproduced, copied, and parodied and has inspired several roadside attractions. There is the American Gothic House Center in Eldon, Iowa. There is Seward Johnson’s giant touring sculpture, “God Bless …
Tractors and horses and tractors and barns and tractors and machines and tractors. If you love tractors, toys, or fun museums check out the National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville, Iowa – the Farm Toy Capital of the World! At the National Farm Toy Museum you can explore the thousands of vintage and modern farm …
You might think a bicycle built for two is as big as it gets but you have to stop in Byron, Illinois to see something even bigger: Will B. Rolling, a giant fiberglass bicyclist on a giant fiberglass bike. And, if you’ve ever been to Sparta, Wisconsin, this Illinois roadside attraction will have you doing …
Enjoy fun games and challenges to pass the time on your next road trip and have a keepsake to look back on for years to come with this entertaining must-have for your next vacation.
The road trip you’ve been dreaming of starts here! Journal about your stops and get to know your fellow passengers with activities and exercises designed to pass the time and bring you closer together. Instead of “Are we there yet?” you’ll find yourself asking, “We’re there already?”. Complete with prompts you can turn to while driving between locations, this journal will one day be a memento of your life-changing trip.
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