World’s largest things you can drive to
A lot of small towns have put themselves on the map with a “world’s largest” something. Here are the 79 attractions on our map whose names claim the record. These are the attractions’ own claims, and some have rivals: the ball of twine title, for one, is split between Darwin, Minnesota and Cawker City, Kansas.
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1. World's Largest Amish Chair
Blairsville, Georgia · built 2013An oversized chair built in 2013 at Owltown Market, about 2.5 miles southeast of Blairsville, and billed as the world's largest Amish chair. Visitors may photograph it but are asked not to sit on it.
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2. World's Largest Apple Basket
Frazeysburg, Ohio · 20 ftA 20-foot woven-style basket filled with giant fake apples, this landmark sits on the former Longaberger Homestead property on Raiders Road. It was repainted and restored in 2022 and is a smaller cousin of the company's basket-shaped office building.
3. World's Largest Axe
Nackawic-Millville, New Brunswick, Canada · 15 m (49 ft) · built 1991A 15 m axe buried in a giant concrete stump in a park beside the Saint John River, honouring New Brunswick's forest industry. Completed in 1991, it weighs over 55 tons and holds a time capsule in its head.
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4. World's Largest Ball of Paint
Alexandria, Indiana · built 1977Mike Carmichael and his young son started with a baseball and a coat of blue house paint in 1977, and the ball now carries more than 27,000 coats and weighs around two and a half tons. Visitors are invited to add a layer themselves.
5. World's Largest Ball of Twine (Cawker City)
Cawker City, Kansas · built 1953Farmer Frank Stoeber started winding this sisal twine ball in 1953, and it moved into town under a shelter in 1961. It is still growing: visitors can add their own twine, and the town holds a Twine-a-thon each August.
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6. World's Largest BB Gun
Rogers, Arkansas · 25 ft · built 2021A BB gun about 25 feet long, set muzzle-up outside the Daisy Airgun Museum in downtown Rogers in January 2021. Its stock is weighted with nearly 200,000 BBs to help keep it standing.
7. World's Largest Bee
Falher, Alberta, Canada · built 1990A giant honeybee rises roughly 20 feet above a small green space in downtown Falher, a town in northern Alberta. Local welder Richard Ethier built it in 1990, and signs nearby tell its story.
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8. World's Largest Belt Buckle
Abilene, Kansas · 14 ft · built 2022Unveiled in Eisenhower Park in 2022, this cowboy-style buckle is nearly 20 feet wide and about 14 feet tall. It is one of the stops on Abilene's Cowboy Art Trail, which celebrates the town's cowboy heritage.
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9. World's Largest Big Mac
Irwin, Pennsylvania · 14 ftA Big Mac statue 14 feet tall and 12 feet wide inside the Big Mac Museum Restaurant, a McDonald's on Route 30 that opened in 2007 in the Pittsburgh area where the burger was created. The restaurant also displays Big Mac history and memorabilia.
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10. World's Largest Booming Prairie Chicken
Rothsay, Minnesota · 13 ft · built 1976Rothsay, the self-described prairie chicken capital of Minnesota, built this concrete bird in 1976 for the nation's bicentennial. It stands 13 feet tall and 18 feet long and weighs about 9,000 pounds, posed in the bird's puffed-up mating display.
11. World's Largest Buffalo (Dakota Thunder)
Jamestown, North Dakota · 26 ft · built 1959A 26-foot-tall, 60-ton concrete bison designed by sculptor Elmer Petersen and built in 1959. It overlooks the James River valley at Frontier Village and was named Dakota Thunder in a 2010 contest.
12. World's Largest Bunnock
Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada · 32 ftMacklin hosts the world bunnock championship, a game played with horse ankle bones, and this 32-foot fibreglass bone celebrates it. Cabri taxidermist Ralph Berg enlarged a real bone about 98 times, and the base holds a tourist booth.
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13. World's Largest Cast Iron Skillet
South Pittsburg, Tennessee · 12 ft diameterA cast iron skillet 12 feet across, or 18 feet including the handle, weighing more than 7 tons. It is on display at the Lodge Museum of Cast Iron, which opened in South Pittsburg in October 2022.
14. World's Largest Catsup Bottle
Collinsville, Illinois · 170 ft including stand · built 1949A 70-foot water tower shaped like a Brooks catsup bottle, perched on a 100-foot stand. It was built in 1949 for the Brooks plant, saved by volunteers in the 1990s and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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15. World's Largest Chess Piece
St. Louis, Missouri · 20 ft · built 2018This 20-foot king made of sapele mahogany stands outside the World Chess Hall of Fame in the Central West End. Guinness certified it in 2018; it is 53 times the size of the Staunton king it copies and weighs over 10,000 pounds.
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16. World's Largest Chest of Drawers
High Point, North Carolina · about 40 ft · built 1926A building dressed as a giant dresser, first built in 1926 in the town that calls itself the furniture capital of the world. A pair of oversized socks hangs from a drawer as a nod to the local hosiery trade.
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17. World's Largest Chocolate Waterfall
Anchorage, Alaska · 20 ftA 20-foot cascade of melted chocolate inside the Alaska Wild Berry Products store on Juneau Street. More than 3,000 pounds of molten chocolate are flowing through it at any given time, and it has drawn visitors to the shop for years.
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18. World's Largest Christmas Pickle
Fort Smith, ArkansasA big green pickle wearing a Santa hat, mounted on a pole near I-49 exit 191 on the southeast edge of Fort Smith. It stays up all year, and a 2025 visitor found it in good shape.
19. World's Largest Coffee Pot
Davidson, Saskatchewan, Canada · 24 ft · built 1996A 24-foot coffee pot sits beside Highway 11 in Davidson, roughly halfway between Regina and Saskatoon, next to a picnic area and walking trails. Erected in 1996, it could hold an estimated 150,000 cups if it were real.
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20. World's Largest Cone Top Beer Can
Potosi, Wisconsin · 40 ftA giant cone-top beer can more than 40 feet tall that holds over 18,000 gallons, standing across the road from the Potosi Brewing Company. It was built outside the original brewery, which closed in 1972, and now serves as a bar and event space.
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21. World's Largest Cowboy Boots
San Antonio, Texas · 40 ft · built 1979A pair of 40-foot cowboy boots by Texas artist Bob "Daddy-O" Wade, first shown in Washington, D.C., in 1979 and moved to North Star Mall in 1980. Guinness World Records recognized them in 2016 as the largest cowboy boot sculpture.
22. World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
Sugarcreek, Ohio · 23.5 ft · built 1972Built in 1972 for the Alpine-Alpa restaurant near Wilmot, this Swiss-style clock was moved to downtown Sugarcreek in 2012. Every half hour in warmer months a cuckoo appears while a small band and dancing figures perform to polka music.
23. World's Largest Curling Rock
Arborg, Manitoba, Canada · 7 ftOutside the Arborg-Bifrost Curling Club sits a curling stone about 14 feet across and 7 feet tall, weighing around 1.5 tonnes. It is billed as the largest curling stone in the world.
24. World's Largest Czech Egg
Wilson, Kansas · 20 ftWilson, which calls itself the Czech capital of Kansas, commissioned this 20-foot egg decorated like a traditional kraslice. Local egg artist Christine Slechta chose the design and painted it with help from the community.
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25. World's Largest Dinosaur (Tyra)
Drumheller, Alberta, Canada · 26.3 m (86 ft) · built 2000A fiberglass-and-steel Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Tyra that towers 26 m over downtown Drumheller, in the heart of Alberta's badlands. It opened in 2000 and has been announced to close and be dismantled in 2029, so this is one to see while you still can.
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26. World's Largest Egg
Winlock, Washington · built 1991 (current egg); first egg 1923A giant egg on a steel post honoring Winlock's past as a top egg-and-poultry town. The first egg went up in 1923, and the current version is fiberglass, installed in 1991. It's sometimes painted for special occasions.
27. World's Largest Egg
Mentone, Indiana · built 1946Local tradesmen built this concrete egg in 1946 as a tribute to Mentone's egg and poultry farmers. The roughly 3,000-pound egg sits on donated land at the corner of Main and Morgan streets.
28. World's Largest Elk Antler Arch
Afton, Wyoming · 18 ft · built 1958An arch made of 3,011 shed elk antlers that spans all four lanes of US 89 in downtown Afton. Local Boy Scouts proposed it in 1955, and it was finished in 1958, weighing more than 15 tons.
29. World's Largest Fiddle
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada · 60 ft · built 2005A steel fiddle and bow about 60 feet tall rises on the Sydney waterfront, celebrating Cape Breton's Celtic music. Cyril Hearn designed and built it, and it was unveiled in 2005; its Gaelic name means Big Fiddle of the Ceilidh.
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30. World's Largest Fly Rod
Houston, British Columbia, Canada · 60 ft long · built 1990Houston displays a 60-foot fly fishing rod weighing about 800 pounds in its Steelhead Park. Fisherman Warner Jarvis came up with the idea, six local machine shops made the parts, and it was installed in May 1990.
31. World's Largest Fork
Springfield, Missouri · 35 ft · built 1990This polished stainless-steel fork, about 35 feet tall and 11 tons, was designed in 1990 by the Noble agency for a restaurant and later moved to the firm's headquarters on West Chesterfield Street. It is free to visit.
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32. World's Largest Free-Standing Hockey Stick
Eveleth, Minnesota · 110 ft long · built 2002Eveleth, a town that has produced many hockey players, displays a 110-foot hockey stick and an oversized puck in its downtown Hockey Plaza. The current stick replaced a cracked 1995 original and was unveiled in 2002.
33. World's Largest Frying Pan
Long Beach, Washington · 20 ft · built 1941A 20-foot skillet displayed as a public sculpture in Long Beach, first made in 1941 by Northwest Copper and Sheet Metal Works. The pan seen today is a fiberglass remake, and only the handle survives from the original.
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34. World's Largest Golf Tee
Casey, Illinois · 30 ft 9 inStanding at the Casey Country Club, this Guinness-record golf tee is more than 30 feet tall with a head over six feet across. It belongs to the collection of giant everyday objects that Jim Bolin built around his hometown.
35. World's Largest Jackalope
Douglas, WyomingDouglas calls itself the Home of the Jackalope, and its biggest one stands outside the Douglas Railroad Interpretive Center. The city bought it in 2007; it is nearly twice the height of the older 8-foot concrete jackalope downtown.
36. World's Largest Kaleidoscope
Mount Tremper, New York · 56 ft · built 1996A kaleidoscope built into a 56-foot former barn silo at the Emerson Resort in the Catskills, opened in 1996. Charles Karadimos designed the optics, and the show projected inside was created by artist Isaac Abrams and his son Raphael.
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37. World's Largest Killer Bee
Hidalgo, TexasA 2,000-pound sculpture of an Africanized honey bee, built after the first U.S. colony of the bees was found just outside Hidalgo in 1990. Instead of fearing the news, the city adopted the nickname Killer Bee Capital of the World.
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38. World's Largest Kokopelli
Camp Verde, Arizona · 32 ftA 32-foot figure of Kokopelli, the flute player of Southwestern lore, on Highway 260 just off I-17 exit 287. It once stood in front of the Krazy Kokopelli Trading Post and still greets travelers in front of the businesses there now.
39. World's Largest Lamp
Donalda, Alberta, Canada · 42 ft · built 2000A 42-foot steel and fibreglass copy of an old oil lamp overlooks Meeting Creek Coulee in Donalda, across from a museum holding about a thousand antique lamps. Local volunteers finished it in 2000, and it is lit every night.
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40. World's Largest Light Bulb (Edison Memorial Tower)
Edison, New Jersey · 131 ft · built 1938A 131-foot Art Deco tower dedicated in 1938 at Menlo Park, where Thomas Edison ran his laboratory, crowned by a 13-foot-8-inch bulb made of Pyrex segments from Corning. After years of decay it was restored and rededicated in 2015 with the bulb relit.
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41. The World's Largest Lobster
Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada · 5 m tall, 11 m long · built 1990An 11 m reinforced-concrete lobster by sculptor Winston Bronnum, commissioned by the Shediac Rotary Club to honour the town's lobster fishery. Unveiled in 1990 and weighing about 90 tonnes, it's one of the Maritimes' best-known photo stops.
42. World's Largest Mailbox
Casey, Illinois · built 2015Unveiled in 2015, this Guinness-certified mailbox in Casey's business district has a stairway so visitors can climb inside, where there is a small exhibit on mail history. Its flag goes up and down when someone drops a letter in.
43. World's Largest Mallard Duck
Andrew, Alberta, Canada · built 1992A giant mallard in mid-flight stands in the village park of Andrew, a nod to the lakes and wetlands nearby that draw huge numbers of waterfowl. Put up in 1992, it has a wingspan of about 23 feet.
44. World's Largest Mushrooms
Vilna, Alberta, Canada · 20 ft · built 1993A cluster of oversized mushroom sculptures fills Mushroom Park in the village of Vilna, modelled on a wild mushroom species that grows in the area. The cluster went up in 1993 and rises about 20 feet.
45. World's Largest Office Chair
Anniston, Alabama · 33 ft · built 1981A 33-foot steel office chair with a 15-foot-square seat, built in 1981 by Leonard Miller of Miller's Office Supply and recognized by Guinness as the world's largest chair in 1982. It weighs 10 tons and is anchored in 15 tons of concrete.
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46. World's Largest Pair of Overalls
Grand Island, NebraskaMade as a Lee company vendor display, these giant blue overalls hang in the Nebraska Building at the state fairgrounds. Nobody knows their exact size, but staff say the frame holding them is about 18 feet high.
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47. World's Largest Peanut
Ashburn, Georgia · built 1975A crowned peanut on a brick tower beside I-75, first raised in 1975 and named a state monument. Hurricane Michael knocked it down in 2018, and a new steel peanut went up in 2023.
48. World's Largest Peanut
Durant, OklahomaOutside Durant City Hall, this oversized peanut monument celebrates the area's peanut farming. It stands at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Evergreen Street and is billed as the biggest peanut in the state.
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49. World's Largest Pecan
Brunswick, Missouri · 12 ft long · built 1982A 12,000-pound concrete pecan, about seven by twelve feet, beside Highway 24 in downtown Brunswick. George James built it in 1982 to honour the Starking Hardy Giant pecan he found on his land.
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50. World's Largest Penny
Woodruff, Wisconsin · 15 ftA giant penny about 15 feet tall and 10 feet across, weighing over 9 tons. It recalls a 1953 drive led by Dr. Kate Newcomb that collected pennies from across the country to help open the local hospital in 1954.
51. World's Largest Perogy
Glendon, Alberta, Canada · 7.6 m (25 ft) · built 1993A 7.6 m perogy, complete with a giant fork, that the village of Glendon unveiled in 1993 as a tribute to the dumpling. It is one of the Giants of the Prairies and a fun detour north of St. Paul in northern Alberta.
52. World's Largest Pheasant
Huron, South Dakota · 28 ft · built 1959A 28-foot, 40-foot-long ring-necked pheasant of steel and fiberglass beside US 14 in Huron, dedicated in 1959 by Governor Joe Foss. The pheasant is South Dakota's state bird, and the statue has been repainted several times since.
53. World's Largest Pistachio
Alamogordo, New Mexico · 30 ft · built 2008A 30-foot ferrocement pistachio at McGinn's PistachioLand on US-54, built in 2008 in honor of the farm's founder, Tom McGinn. You can visit the farm store and taste pistachios after your photo.
54. World's Largest Pitchfork
Casey, Illinois · 61 ft longOutside Richards Farm Restaurant, this Guinness-record pitchfork is more than 61 feet long and weighs close to a ton. It is one of several farm-themed giants in Casey, a small town that collects world records for oversized objects.
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55. World's Largest Pizza Cutter
Harborcreek, Pennsylvania · 5 ft diameter · built 2023A pizza cutter with a 5-foot stainless steel wheel and an 8-foot handle, installed in November 2023 outside the Donatos Pizza on Buffalo Road east of Erie. Several local businesses built it, and the restaurant calls it the biggest pizza cutter wheel in the world.
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56. World's Largest Pocketknife
Radcliff, Kentucky · 17.5 ft blade · built 2019A steel pocketknife with a 17.5-foot blade and more than three tons of metal, set on a hill in front of Redhill Cutlery in 2019. It marks the Kentucky Museum of American Pocketknives.
57. World's Largest Popcorn Ball
Sac City, Iowa · built 2016Sac City displays this 9,370-pound popcorn ball in a small building on Main Street. Put on view in July 2016, it is the latest of several record balls the town has made over the years.
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58. World's Largest Porch Swing
Hebron, Nebraska · 32 ft long · built 1985A covered porch swing with a 32-foot seat that can hold about 18 adults or 24 children. Built in 1985 using part of a center pivot irrigation frame, it moved to Roosevelt Park in 1991, and you can sit on it.
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59. World's Largest Potato Masher
Plover, Wisconsin · 39 ftA 39-foot, 7,500-pound potato masher in front of the Food + Farm Exploration Center, a farm education museum in central Wisconsin's potato country. It is one of the state's newer giant attractions.
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60. World's Largest Red Paper Clip
Kipling, Saskatchewan, Canada · 15 ft · built 2007Blogger Kyle MacDonald famously traded one red paper clip, step by step, for a house in Kipling. The town marked the story in 2007 with a steel paper clip about 15 feet tall and more than 45 feet long.
61. World's Largest Rocking Chair
Casey, Illinois · 56 ft · built 2015Completed in 2015, this steel rocker in downtown Casey took the Guinness record from a Missouri chair. It is one of the town's many record-setting objects made by local businessman Jim Bolin, and it weighs about 46,200 pounds.
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62. World's Largest Ronald Reagan Statue
Covington, Louisiana · 10 ft · built 2008A statue of President Ronald Reagan almost 10 feet tall, about one and a half times life size, on a 6-foot pedestal at the Tammany Trace trailhead park. It went up in 2008, completed by the Taylor Foundation after donor Patrick F. Taylor died.
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63. World's Largest Salt Shaker
Lyons, Kansas · 15 ftMade of metal and glass panels, this 15-foot salt shaker stands in Salt Miners Park on the courthouse square. It honors Lyons' salt mining history and is roughly 64 times the size of a tabletop shaker.
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64. World's Largest Santa Claus
North Pole, Alaska · 42 ft · built 1968A 42-foot fiberglass Santa from 1968 outside the Santa Claus House gift shop on St. Nicholas Drive, billed as the world's largest Santa. It's the signature stop in the Christmas-themed town of North Pole, near Fairbanks.
65. World's Largest Sausage
Mundare, Alberta, Canada · 42 ft · built 2001This towering fibreglass ring of Ukrainian kielbasa honours Stawnichy's, the meat business that made Mundare known for sausage. Dedicated in 2001, it stands about 42 feet tall and weighs roughly 12,000 pounds.
66. World's Largest Six-Pack
La Crosse, Wisconsin · 54 ft · built 1969Six brewery storage tanks, about 54 feet tall, painted to look like a giant six-pack of beer. Built by G. Heileman Brewing in 1969, they hold roughly 688,000 gallons and were repainted in their original packaging look in 2023.
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67. World's Largest Snowman
Beardmore, Ontario, Canada · 35 ft · built 1998A 35-foot snowman wearing a top hat and sunglasses stands beside Highway 11 in Beardmore. It swaps props with the seasons, holding a curling broom in winter and a fishing rod in summer; the current figure dates from 1998.
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68. World's Largest Strawberry
Strawberry Point, Iowa · 15 ftA 15-foot fiberglass strawberry billed as the world's largest, standing in the aptly named town of Strawberry Point. It makes a quick, cheerful photo stop in northeast Iowa.
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69. World's Largest Sweet Tea
Summerville, South Carolina · 15 ft · built 2016A mason jar replica more than 15 feet tall that set a record in June 2016 when it was filled with 2,524 gallons of sweet tea. It sits in the town hall courtyard, which was cleaned up and given benches in 2025.
70. World's Largest Teapot
Chester, West Virginia · 14 ft · built 1938A former root beer barrel turned into a giant teapot after it came to Chester in 1938 to honor the local pottery industry. It sits off US 30 and has been restored by residents more than once.
71. World's Largest Telephone
Bryant Pond, Maine · 14 ft · built 2008A 14-foot candlestick telephone with a working crank, made in 2008 by local resident Gil Whitman. It honors the Bryant Pond Telephone Company, the last hand-cranked magneto phone system in the country, and stands in the village's Remembrance Park.
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72. World's Largest Weathervane
Montague, Michigan · 48 ftA working weathervane 48 feet tall with a 26-foot arrow, topped by a replica of the schooner Ellenwood. It stands at Dowling and Water Streets in Montague and was partly built by Whitehall Metal Studios.
73. World's Largest Wind Chime
Casey, Illinois · 49 ftFive huge metal tubes hang about 49 feet up from this record-setting chime, built by local businessman Jim Bolin and his crew and certified by Guinness in 2012. It is the centrepiece of Casey's collection of Big Things, which also includes a giant mailbox, golf tee and rocking chair.
74. World's Largest Working Fire Hydrant
Beaumont, Texas · 24 ftA 24-foot fire hydrant weighing more than 4,500 pounds, donated to Beaumont by Walt Disney in 1999 to promote the re-release of 101 Dalmatians. It stands in front of the Fire Museum of Texas and is billed as the world's largest working hydrant.
75. World's Tallest Filing Cabinet
Burlington, Vermont · over 40 ft · built 2002An artwork of welded filing cabinets, made in 2002 by Bren Alvarez, that pokes fun at a long-delayed highway project. Its 38 drawers mark years of waiting, and it now stands on Flynn Avenue.
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76. World's Tallest Gas Pump
Sapulpa, Oklahoma · 66 ft · built 2018Built at the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum and finished in 2018, this replica gas pump was meant to be 66 feet tall to honor the highway but came out a little taller. It was named Oklahoma's best new attraction that year.
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77. World's Tallest Ladderback Chair
Bennington, Vermont · 19 ftA 19-foot ladderback chair first raised in the late 1960s by the Haynes family outside their furniture store. When a later furniture business closed, a local credit union rescued the chair, and a refurbished version was unveiled in 2023 at its Washington Avenue branch.
78. World's Tallest Thermometer
Baker, California · 134 ft · built 1991A 134-foot sign-thermometer on Baker Boulevard, the gateway town to Death Valley on the road between LA and Las Vegas. Finished in 1991, it went dark in 2012 and was relit after renovation in 2014; checking how hot the Mojave is today is the whole point of stopping.
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79. World's Tallest Tin Soldier
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada · 9.75 m (32 ft) · built 2000A 9.75 m sheet-metal soldier at Westminster Quay, modelled on a Royal Engineer of the Columbia Detachment that surveyed and laid out the city. Guinness World Records recognized it as the largest tin soldier in 2002, and it sits right on the riverfront promenade.
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