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Big Things worth the detour
Roadside icons, giant oddities and memorable landmarks worth adding to your journey.
WHAT COUNTS AS A BIG THING?
Something enormous, deliberate, and worth pulling over for.
A giant piece of fruit. An oversized animal. A novelty building, a mining monument, a sculpture that became a town's landmark. Every record says what it is and whether it is still there. Where we have researched it, it also says how recently that was checked and where you can lawfully stop.
YOUR BIG THINGS PASSPORT
Find them. Visit them. Remember them.
A free account builds your private Big Things Passport from the places you have visited and the ones you want to see. Big Things you visited years ago count too – there is no proof to supply and no location tracking.
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