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2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Anderson, Indiana

Updated October 21, 2025
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Hett Gallery and Museum

Anderson, Indiana

The Hett Gallery and Museum

A collection of relics from the Spiritualist Camp Chesterfield.
The Great Mound

Anderson, Indiana

The Great Mound

Indiana’s largest prehistoric earthwork, aligned with the solstices.
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World’s Largest Ball of Paint

Alexandria, Indiana

World's Largest Ball of Paint

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.
10 miles from Anderson
How many pink elephants wearing thick black-framed glasses sipping a martini have you seen?

Fortville, Indiana

Martini-Drinking Pink Elephant

The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.
15 miles from Anderson
Benny ready to flap as she scans the area

Muncie, Indiana

Benny

Campus sculpture has earned a reputation for responding to the hopes and dreams of those passing by.
15 miles from Anderson

Muncie, Indiana

The Passing of the Buffalo

This statue of a Native American figure forlornly looking at the passing of a way life has been on the move.
16 miles from Anderson
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Muncie, Indiana

Appeal to the Great Spirit Replica

Muncie’s own authorized knockoff of one of America’s most famous (and debated) statues.
17 miles from Anderson
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