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Missouri Tourist AttractionsGuide to roadside oddities and other weird, strange and unusual travel attractions in Missouri.
A lot of Missouri tourist attractions are larger than lifes. Is that the right term? I mean, what else do you call a group of things larger than life?
The Missouri Ozarks have been a favorite attraction for eons. The towns, the mountains, the lakes, the food. So we gotta get an Ozark-y tourist attraction in here somewhere…
The whole city of Branson is a Missouri tourist attraction all itself. They have larger than lifes, too. Check out the huge music instruments at Grand Country Square.
Check out the big banjo at the Grand Country Market in the Grand Country Square complex.
It is known worldwide as Branson’s “Eiffel Tower”.
Not sure what the connection is between a banjo and the Eiffel Tower but...there it is.
Here’s a great tacky Missouri tourist attraction - Ozarkland! A cool store filled to the gills with tacky souvenirs. Kitsch is the name of the game at this store. There’s a smashed penny machine at Ozarkland. Smashed pennies are my absolute favoritest memento to get at tacky tourist attractions like this. Well, at any tourist attraction. They’re cheap-usually only 51 cents (you gotta supply your own penny!) they’re small and they’re suitably tacky. They should have them at all roadside oddities and weird tourist attractions! Yeah. And at not weird tourist attractions, too. Ozarkland is at 3233 County Road 211, Kingdom City, MO
Or shall we say a “larger than life” gas pump?
Photo courtesy oldgas.com. Roadside architecture in Missouri includes a building shaped like a big gas pump. The need a BIG (larger than life) car sitting by it.
See the Big Gas Pump at 508 N. Grand Ave, Junction of Highway 169. King City MO.
Uh, a 3-way plug? Okaaaaay. Not like this one! This one’s a shocker. It’s huge! Larger than life, way larger than life, the electrical plug sits on the grounds of the Saint Louis Art Museum, St, Louis, Missouri. The museum is in Forest Park. Here’s directions to the Saint Louis Art Museum off their website: Forest Park is accessible via I-64/Rte. 40. From the west and east, exit right (34D). Continue north into the park, and then follow signs to the Art Museum. From I-44, west and east, exit right (286). Continue north on Hampton Ave. into the park, and then follow signs.
Uh…You’d think it would be one of those other “M” states like Minnesota or Michigan that’s closer to Canada. But no, Missouri is the state that gets the Worlds Largest Canada Goose and she landed in Sumner, Wild Goose Capital of the World.
Maxie, the world's largest Canada goose sits in a park in Sumner, Missouri, Wild Goose Capital of the World.
And she is huge.
And just so you don’t go on a wild goose chase (hee hee) trying to find her, Maxie stands in Sumner Community Park on Highway 139 in Sumner, MO.
Photo courtesy goose festival.com.
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Well, maybe not…The strings are made of fiber optic and the neck is 47 feet long. Part of the neck sticks out the window. Very cool looking at night!
