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asdonkar

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2013

Freelance photographer, holder of season tickets to the University of North Carolina baseball and women's basketball teams, Master of Library Science, civil servant. I like rock music, sweet tea, pedal steel played well, Fuji 1600 ISO film, the Band & the Rolling Stones, vintage dresses, HOKA trail runners, my Chippewa motorcycle boots, old rangefinders and Holgas, North Carolina beaches, pitching and defense, Gunnar Henderson, and chili cheese hotdogs.
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The Big Pineapple.

Bathurst, South Africa

The Big Pineapple

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

The Cedar of Lebanon.
Permanently Closed

London, England

World's Largest Potted Plant

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

World's Largest Crow

Belgrade, Minnesota

World's Largest Crow

This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.

Monopoly in the Park

San Jose, California

Monopoly in the Park

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The World's Tallest Concrete Gnome

Ames, Iowa

Elwood, the World's Tallest Concrete Gnome

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

The Chicken chicken.

Chicken, Alaska

Chicken of Chicken, Alaska

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

Mac the Moose

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Mac the Moose

The world's largest moose statue is located (where else?) in Canada.

Larry the Lobster - and an idea of his scale (size & color)

Kingston SE, Australia

Larry The Red Big Lobster

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

Side view of the statue

Dubova, Romania

Decebal's Head

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

Jolly Green Giant Statue

Blue Earth, Minnesota

Jolly Green Giant Statue

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

The Rhinelapus

Monico, Wisconsin

Rhinelapus

Meet the "Green Monster" of Monico, Wisconsin.

Big Mac Sculpture

Irwin, Pennsylvania

The Big Mac Museum

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

Big Ole

Alexandria, Minnesota

Big Ole

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

The six pack in 2008

La Crosse, Wisconsin

World's Largest Six-Pack

Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.

The Old Salem Coffee Pot

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Old Salem Coffee Pot

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

Hidalgo, Texas's "killer bee" statue.

Hidalgo, Texas

'World's Largest Killer Bee'

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

The Big Prawn.

West Ballina, Australia

The Big Prawn

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

The Big Elk

Stor-Elvdal, Norway

Storelgen (The Big Moose)

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

Creation Museum, Taxidermy Hall of Fame, and Antique Tool Museum

Southern Pines, North Carolina

Creation Museum, Taxidermy Hall of Fame, and Antique Tool Museum

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

Vintage D. Gottlieb & Co. game

Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville Pinball Museum

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

A sculpture of the Tower of Babel, by Alan Baughman, from the Introductory Room of the Museum of the Alphabet

Waxhaw, North Carolina

The Museum of the Alphabet

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

North Carolina Maritime Museum at Beaufort

Beaufort, North Carolina

North Carolina Maritime Museum at Beaufort

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Museum Entrance, down bellow in a former public restroom.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Icelandic Punk Museum

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Whales of Iceland

Reykjavik, Iceland

Whales of Iceland

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

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