Lucy the Elephant is a six-story, elephant-shaped wooden building in Margate City, New Jersey, standing 65 feet tall and covered in sheet tin. Built in 1881 as a real estate promotion, she’s now a National Historic Landmark and the oldest surviving roadside attraction in America, and you can actually walk up a spiral staircase inside…
Category: Roadside Attractions
Rita the Rock Planter: Thomas Dambo’s Hidden Troll in Victor, Colorado
Rita the Rock Planter is a giant troll sculpture built entirely from recycled wood by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, kneeling on a hillside between the old mining towns of Victor and Cripple Creek, Colorado. She’s on her knees, patching holes left behind by 19th-century gold miners, and you have to hike a short, rocky trail…
Oscar the Bird King: The Troll Who Started It All on Vashon Island, Washington
Oscar the Bird King is a giant recycled-wood troll sculpture by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, sitting on a log throne in a shaded grove at Point Robinson Park on Vashon Island, Washington. He’s the sixth and final troll built in Dambo’s “Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King” series, and in the story that ties…