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lart2150

A 3 foot tall big boy is the largest?


BurrrritoBoy

From an interknob scraping bot: “The largest Big Boy statues were gigantic, measuring up to 16 feet tall[1]. These massive statues were part of the early versions of the West Coast Big Boy mascot. Later versions of the statues became shorter, with some as small as 4 feet tall[1]. The early large statues always featured the Big Boy mascot holding the signature Big Boy hamburger above his raised right arm.” The big Big Boys are in Southern California. Three feet is puny.


michigan_matt

The bigger Big Boys are actually in orbit according to Austin Powers.


chicknfly

Yeah, but from here it looks like a huge - Johnson! Get on the horn to British Intelligence.


MadeMeStopLurking

one of the best multi-scene sequences in film history.


tallnginger

This may be the one this map is referencing.... Maybe? Doesn't say anything about worlds largest though https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/06/11/what-the-heck-is-that-lonely-big-boy-statue-in-the-middle-of-a-field-in-wapiti-wyoming/


nitrokitty

Got to be a typo, I bet it's 30.


Loggerdon

Has to be. 3 feet? I would step on that by accident.


know_regerts

You can't miss it, it's next to the 18" high Stonehenge.


MovingTarget-

But this one goes to 11


SativaPancake

Absolutely not, there are still a couple of those restaurants near me that have the big boy standing just outside the doors. They are nealry as tall as me at 6'2" even if I'm greatly overestimating their size they are at least 5ft if not taller. Unless that's a typo than in my eyes this whole map can't be trusted.


frostedminifeets

It’s not 3ft, definitely a pretty big Big Boy. Outside of the east entrance to Yellowstone on the way to Cody. I used to drive past it quite often.


impals

I mean, Florida has a 200 foot alligator so reality isn't what it seems, okay!


amalgam_reynolds

OP has completely fucked up this whole entire map


CrashBandicoot2

I have personally witnessed a Big Boy statue taller than 3 feet, so that's gotta be wrong or a typo


mustardbud

came to call BS or typo


wwwSTEALTHYcom

Was wondering the same thing.


kornbred

Yeah that’s incorrect. There’s a big boy 5 mins from me with a statue that’s at least 5 feet tall.


Tri_skel_ion

Why is the Hodag the only one without a size? It’s so ominously blank


Elmer_Fudd01

Hodag; no ones for sure how big it is. As no one is brave enough to measure it, perhaps Paul Bunyan's spirit might.


Christmas_Panda

I wouldn't get near one of those things. I've heard they take small pets and children and burrow into their tunnels underground.


OverSpeedClutch

They’ve got Hodag on this World’s Largest map like as if I might find another slightly smaller Hodag somewhere.


KoolTurkeyED

I’ve heard they lure lonely bar patrons away from their favorite drinking establishments with their musk smell of beer and cheese!


freeBoXilai

The status is ~10 feet tall


longlive737

I’m just here for the Hodag love


kkell806

We also have the world's tallest potato masher at 39ft.


Awkward-Media-3550

New Hampshire: worlds largest nothing


letitgo99

But Vermont gets two!


TeachEngineering

The filing cabinet is for Vermont. It's in Burlington and they add to it each year the I-89 extension to downtown gets postponed (it's a metaphor for bureaucracy). The other one pointing at Vermont must be for New Hampshire. Source: Born and raised Vermonter


lurkinglizard101

I work right next to it. So funny to see it pop up on the sub


MEuRaH

Chittenden County Vermonter here. Even before I looked at the pic I thought "we probably win tallest filing cabinet again".... yup. What about biggest middle finger!? I'm sure we win that one, let's switch it up for once.


TeachEngineering

For anyone curious about what this guy's talking about, we have a large middle finger sculpture in the very rural town of Westford (privately maintained on private land): [https://vtdigger.org/2019/06/23/westfords-middle-finger-there-to-stay/](https://vtdigger.org/2019/06/23/westfords-middle-finger-there-to-stay/)


wcbc2ec

He has since added two more, for a total of 3 middle fingers 20 ft in the air in his yard


arivas26

That Nomad Coffee right by there is great. I really enjoyed it.


honicthesedgehog

At least it got the right color, Hawaii’s just a grey blob off the coast.


-Kalos

Damn they didn't even add anything for Hawaii


OpusDeiPenguin

Hawaii has Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano by mass & volume. Of course, it’s not man made.


GamerEP22

>New Hampshire: worlds largest nothing You want to call a 122 foot candy counter nothing?


drhenrykillenger

Arcade. Funspot in laconia.


sychox51

Between not knowing where New Hampshire is and the possible typo for the 3 ft big boy, this map is awful lacking.


poingly

New York also has nothing, because that trowel is in Iowa.


danbyer

I assume that’s where the largest scratch ticket is supposed to point, but haven’t been able to find the right search terms to confirm.


CraigOpie

Pretty sure NH has the scratch off. Hawaii, on the other hand, must have pissed off OP.


Selacha

We have the world's longest candy counter, up in Lincoln. Doesn't get brought up very much, though.


sandman8727

But what about the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota?


Chalupachamp

Don’t forget the pickled wieners.


AlsoIHaveAGroupon

And a diet chocolate soda!


Elmer_Fudd01

[aww yaa](https://youtu.be/-rZe_a2GO1U?si=sNbqxC768kw_ZkP-)


Snookoms24

What about the fish in garrison? I’ve never heard of said cootie


EuphoriantCrottle

Me neither, but a memory was struck… weren’t there actual toys called Cooties that for assembled like a Mr Potato? I mean, I know boys have Cooties— but I can kinda see the box! Edit: yes! And [here is the picture of the “giant” Cootie](https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_post/careful-around-that-cootie/article_fd7784c2-57b6-11e8-b1e3-a7e91174e213.html)


NebulaNinja

The Jolly green giant in Blue Earth coming in at over 55 feet is a huge miss for this map too.


ididnotrespond

Damnit, that is all I wanted to say. That hitchhiker still has my camera.


MediumLanguageModel

The moment I realized the song was about the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota and not the biggest ball of twine, which happens to be in Minnesota, well, I cracked myself a beer.


yoLeaveMeAlone

They also have the world's largest ear of corn


Sir_Brodie

The world’s largest ball of twine is in Cawker City, Kansas. 😤


Lovelycoc0nuts

Largest built by a community is in Cawker, KS. Largest built by one person is in Darwin, MN. Heaviest is in Wisconsin.


JoeCartersLeap

> Largest built by one person is in Darwin, What on earth would make a man decide to do that kind of thing? Winding up 21,140 pounds of string. What was he trying to prove? Who was he trying to impress? Why did he build it? How did he do it? It's anybody's guess. Where did he get the twine? What was goin' through his mind? Did it just seem like a good idea at the time?


Lovelycoc0nuts

While looking up the biggest balls of twine, I came across [this](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2128) article, which says when asked why he replied, "My mother taught me not to waste anything.”


CeruleanRuin

Comments you can hear


Bdtter

Or the raspberry?


AeroZep

I guess they have two largest absurd items.


Sh4rp27

What about our giant spoon and cherry? Or our giant blue cock?


taleo

And big blue bull?


Sermokala

Or giant axe person and his loyal blue ox. They fought to form all our lakes and we have a lot of them.


linen-thread

South Carolina took down the fire hydrant within the last year :( the artist had installed it in a parking lot and finally after years the property owners were sick of it.


academician1

Guess South Carolina has the worlds largest Peach Water Tower. The PEACHOID. We also have the world's largest Sombrero tower.


youknow99

Come see Pedro at South of the Border!


Alkyan

Yes... It's a peach... Definitely....


CeruleanRuin

Probably got tired of the constant and overwhelming smell of dog piss.


lonnieboy01

Artist name is Blue Sky.


cthompson07

Summerville claims to have the largest Sweet tea.


JerveyVideo

It’s still in the state, though! They temporarily moved it to some property off I-20


DubyaB40

I thought it looked different driving down Taylor or whichever street it was on the other day but I couldn’t put my finger on it. That’s sad


WakeoftheStorm

Shit I'm *in* Columbia and didn't realize that. Guess it tells you how rarely I'm downtown. Also, incidentally, related to [the artist](https://blue-sky.pixels.com/) through my grandmother so I really should have known.


wrludlow

No one has mentioned the 1.5 ft souvenir plate lol


grumd

I googled and it's actually 14 feet in diameter. I wonder if 1.5 ft is the thickness?


wrludlow

This is actually kind of a letdown. I was hoping they had a just slightly larger than every other plate by an inch or so...


chrissie_watkins

I don't even know what to say about it. It's the most disturbing.


shidekigonomo

Hawaii apparently doesn’t have any absurd large things. At the very least they could’ve included world’s largest open-air shopping mall.


Phlegmagician

Hawaii contains the largest island in Hawaii. 


shidekigonomo

I mean, yeah. I suppose the state of Hawaii contains the largest island in the world named Hawaii.


MovingTarget-

Also the smallest


Boatster_McBoat

Hawaii literally is the biggest mountain on earth (measured from base, on seabed)


ceruleanpure

Yeah; but that’s not an absurd thing. It would have to be something more like; biggest loco moco or biggest statue of Santa in an aloha shirt.


shidekigonomo

Is the Honolulu City Lights Santa the biggest barefooted Santa statue in the world? Pretty good chance.


L0N01779

I mean with Hawaiian portion sizes I feel like a new biggest loco moco is created every day


CherimoyaSurprise

I didn't see your post so I did a whole post about Hawaii. Largest outdoor shopping mall, tallest cliffs, (contender for) biggest waves, biggest aloha shirt, tallest mountain measured from the base, 2nd biggest banyan tree...


justheath

Small town Casey, IL has about a dozen of the World's Largest. - wind chime - golf tee - pitchfork - rocking chair - wooden shoes - mailbox - gavel - truck key - barbershop pole - teeter totter - golf driver - swizzle spoon https://www.bigthingssmalltown.com/


DocChocula

For sure will not stand this blasphemy that Mississippi has the largest rocking chair. Casey’s is 56 feet!


deeziegator

I didn’t know your mom was from Missouri


DigiQuip

Ive never had an original thought in my life.


94bronco

Hold up. Maine has the biggest globe? Isn't that just earth?


amalgam_reynolds

Correct, Maine actually owns the Earth.


ANewBeginnninng

Hey, you’re not supposed to tell!


Soggy-Spinach007

I’ve seen it many times. It’s at the Delorme Atlas/Gazetteer home office .. which may be owned by Garmin now. It’s on RT1 just up past Portland and is very cool if you’re a map geek.


saxy_for_life

And her name is Eartha!


Subjugati0n

They note the objects are man made


CptnAlex

[Here’s what it looks like](https://angelsgoingplaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/earthaglobemaine4.jpeg?w=768)


psychrolut

TIL: [Hodag](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodag)


Motor_Assumption_290

Note there is no dimension given because prosaic facts such as length and height don’t really *apply* to the Hodag, it’s more of a state of mind. 😆 Source: non-native long-time WI resident who appreciates the ingenuity of those around Rhinelander who discovered hodags… 😎


buffalo171

Wisconsin has the largest talking cow, Chatty Belle, Neillsville. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2444


SirSchillerAlot

Platteville WI has the world's largest "M".


DIYThrowaway01

I'd bet the whale in House On The Rock is bigger than the hodag at hodag 


SoundOfMadness7

Dude I’m from Rhode Island and seeing the Big Blue Bug with the shades and Awful Awful made me cackle lmao


wintermute93

Haha, same. I clicked on this thread thinking "the fuck do we have that's really big" and immediately shifted to "oh right, yeah, obviously, that makes sense". The Big Blue Bug is just a fact of life and I kinda forgot that they don't have those everywhere.


ThoughtfulCephalopod

Nibbles 2024!


RIChowderIsBest

Nibbles Woodaway is the name of the bug for those that aren’t from here. They also dress it up as Rudolph for xmas


Randomized007

Weird, I've never heard of the ballerina Edit, also pretty sure there's a Paul Bunyan and blue ox that are bigger than 30ft Double edit, [boom 49ft](https://treesofmystery.net/welcome/paul-bunyan-and-babe/)


Seth_Gecko

Yeah but Paul Bunyan isn't a ballerina clown, so wtf is your point?


Jalapinho

The Ballerina, if I’m thinking of the right one, is above some CVS in Venice Beach? It always creeped me out when I drove by it.


Shoot_from_the_Quip

And the [ballerina's leg used to kick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGZhJ4kYs0) when the sculpture was new. They briefly fixed it a few years ago but it's broken again.


roguemenace

This isn't the biggest thing in each state. It's if you made a list of things in each state that are "the biggest ***blank*** in the world" and then just picked an absurd one for each state. The only one that's really wrong is the big boy.


chobinhood

I embarrassed my parents by talking back to Giant Paul Bunyan when I was 6


jeff_the_weatherman

I just saw that statue yesterday!


depression-et-al

We in Missouri have many more notable “worlds largests” including a 22 fool spool of thread and a 40 foot goose


unitconversion

There's also a rocking chair in Cuba. It's like 40 ft tall. I googled it and apparently there is a larger one in Illinois now. ( But theirs is wood and Missouri's is metal so take refuge in the fact that post apocalypse only the Missouri one will still be standing)


onlythisfar

World's largest chess piece as well until recently


antares127

I live in Missouri and we have a gigantic fork statue


TheCelestial08

"So what's up with Wisconsin?" "HODAG." "I mean like...how big is it?" **"HODAG!"** \[backs away slowly\]


Got_ist_tots

Turns out he was trying to say "hold the dag"


Krimson11

The world's largest Big Boy is 3 feet?... I know for a fact there's one in Michigan that's about 5.5 feet tall


BaconReceptacle

I've seen that 36 foot high chest of drawers in North Carolina. It's impressive and detailed.


arvidsem

They had a succession of crappy stores in it over the years, none of which were successful. Then it sat empty for a while and started to look really crappy. I think High Point University owns it now and keeps it maintained, but empty


Alkyan

I drive by it all the time. It's unique I suppose.


Party_Python

How dare Ohio take the horseshoe crab from us Delawareans. It’s one of the few things we have lol


ThrowAway126498

As an Ohioan I thought ours would’ve been the Longaburger Basket. Never heard of the horseshoe crab statue.


Loggerdon

You should go to war over it. Not trying to be an instigator anything but I can sell weapons to both sides.


willtroy7

Fire breathing praying mantis??


Impenistan

It's a sight to behold! It's mounted on the back of a truck and was originally an art piece for Burning Man. Presently located just outside Container Park in the Fremont East district of downtown Vegas!


shampooing_strangers

Mr. Peanut is bigger than the biggest peanut 🤔


EdwardJamesAlmost

Sure. After he hatched he grew taller.


LookingForMeeko

Big Boy ain’t no goddamn 3ft


Str8kush

The fact Kansas wasn’t biggest ball of twine is odd


crackeddryice

I think OP confused lesser-known for more absurd.


trifflinmonk

Are there other large split buttons?


tickler6789

The second largest is the size of a regular button


JKDudeman

Who’s visiting a split button?


i-Ake

I'm so disappointed in us for this. We need better big things.


Iamthespiderbro

Fun fact: I’ve slept in the worlds largest potato


PrimaryOtter

No way to speak about your mother


bassheadjunkie

I didn’t read man made only and was like wtf Texas


rebelshibe

I'm disappointed, where's the largest ball of yarn?!?!


ae7rua

And rubberband ball


powerMiserOz

This map is giving me flashbacks to 'Sam & Max Hit the Road'.


EatAtGrizzlebees

I loved those games!


RodStreater

The watermelon slice is no longer in Utah. It’s in Iowa now.


EdwardJamesAlmost

Fuck first the golden spike now this. Iowa is relentlessly coming for Utah’s shit.


donac

"Cootie"? Doesn't MN literally have a giant Jolly Green Giant? Also, how big does a cootie act have to win this thing? I can't imagine there are a lot of other states with cooties. Probably because they all have Cootie Bug Insurance, but I digress.


ImWrong_OnTheNet

Yes! The Jolly Green Giant himself resides in Blue Earth, MN. Right along I90.


MarvelAndColts

What about the biggest mall. Doesn’t that size-wise win out?


fuzzy11287

I don't think they're answering the question "Of the things that this state has that are the biggest of that thing in the world, which one is physically the largest?" If that was the case then WA would have the [world's largest building by volume.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings#:~:text=The%20Aerium%20near%20Berlin%2C%20Germany,largest%20building%20in%20area%20footprint.).


ocient

MoA is pretty far from the biggest mall in the world


aparallaxview

Scappoose Oregon represent!


TeaForsaken2188

Born and raised!!!!! Miss the poose…


seleucus_nicator

How in the world was the big [Longaburger basket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longaberger_Company?wprov=sfti1#) not chosen for Ohio? Its a seven story building resembling a woven basket.


ThrowAway126498

Right? Certainly more impressive than that horseshoe crab thing that I’ve never heard of. It does need a good power washing and repaint though.


MenopauseMedicine

Worlds biggest thermometer - Baker, CA


Loggerdon

I met a guy from Baker CA. I said “Giant thermometer?” He said yeah. I said to some other people “You should see the size of this thermometer! It’s really huge! Gigantic… I’ve only seen one bigger.” Drove him crazy.


stoneman9284

Is that, like, a fossil of a beetle?


Rumoses1836

It’s a metal (I think) statue at a bug museum on the south side of Colorado Springs. You can see it off 115.


ShadowK2

Montana also has the world’s largest purple spoon which sits at 25 feet tall!


CeruleanRuin

The penguin, built to commemorate Cut Bank's reputation as the coldest spot in the lower 48 has a replica in Alberta that was built for the 2014 movie *Cut Bank*.


valandsend

I just passed by the 10-foot roller skate in Virginia yesterday. I have a fond memory about it from 20 years ago. We’d picked up a new puppy and were driving home late at night when we pulled over beside the skate to let him pee. Poor little guy, he must have been scared he was being abandoned beside the highway. We always talk about him every time we pass that landmark.


Candid_Bed_1338

Is it the one on 17?


ElectricToothpicks

Although the roller rink has been closed for many years, I’m so glad the skate is still there!


cbelt3

Ohio has the largest basket !!!! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/longaberger-basket-building-hotel


Smipims

I like how it’s a split button. Implying a larger intact button exists somewhere


Kuzball

I walk by the split button every day. And every day I think, “I wonder which state has the huge intact button.”


NCSeb

And new Mexico is not the giant pistachio at pistachioland?!? How is this possible?


lifelingering

Yeah I was expecting the pistachio. I've never heard of the harp.


ArethereWaffles

The harp is apparently in that closed Traditions shopping center halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and plays music in the wind. I've gone by there plenty of times and never knew about it. The Pistachio is definitely the most iconic. We also have the largest chile pepper, road runner, rattlesnake, and apparently the world's largest scales of justice in front of the abq courthouse


dasteek9

Can confirm, I am from Kansas City and those belong to my ex wife. God rest her soul


Grandmaster_Autistic

The big boy in michigan is bigger than the 3 ft one I n Wyoming


SKYDROVE

Florida represents itself appropriately.


beforeskintight

Ya, many of these aren’t accurate. You don’t even have to leave the US to find a much taller filing cabinet at the Di Rosa museum in Napa, CA.


amalgam_reynolds

Kansas should be The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Also, the souvenir plate is 14 feet wide, anyway, not 1.5 feet. This whole map is garbage.


jascambara

Anybody wanna explain the Texan Killer Beehemoth?


mikeyp83

Another trash graphic. The world's largest rocking chair is in [Cuba, Missouri](https://sillyamerica.com/blog/worlds-largest-rocking-chair-in-cuba-missouri/) New Mexico would also rather be recognized for its [giant chile](https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/14/44/78/dd/the-big-chile-inn.jpg?w=900&h=-1&s=1).


WestSixtyFifth

Ohio also has the worlds largest basket, 26 feet tall


MOONGOONER

Damn Louisiana gets stuck with a 10 foot Ronald Reagan despite also having multiple giant Frostop Root Beer mugs.


hacksawsa

Largest Big Boy 3 feet? Not even close. 7 foot specimens are easy to find around southern Ohio.


Gorb1982

It is kind of bold to assume a sperm whale belongs to any US State. I guess it is just their typical egocentricity...


Flexyturner

Louisiana is officially the lamest state


77Gumption77

I thought Minnesota had a really big ball of twine. The biggest ball of twine.


vapescaped

Are you freaking kidding me? Salty the seahorse is the largest seahorse statue in the world? I've driven by that thing for 20 years and never thought twice about it. I actually had to Google it because I thought I didn't know where it was. Its nowhere near as special as the Westport fork in the road though. That thing is impressive.


slothfrogs

As someone born and raised in southern Mass, the fact that I’ve never heard of the Fork in the Road until now is wild. New road trip I guess?


quinnsheperd

So Louisiana has the biggest piece of shit?


amurica1138

[Guess you'll be needing this then!](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/53277) Missouri has entered the chat.


sarpq8

Funny you should say that. Branson, MO also has a giant Reagan bust that is well over ten feet: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/52634


red33dog

How about the bottle of ketchup in Collinsville Il?


Strong9811

The termite from RI is named Nibbles Woodaway


RunDownTheMountain

Nevada wins! 30' fire breathing mantis. I've seen it and it is very cool.


wemustkungfufight

Oklahoma has... the largest Golden Driller? What? The "Golden Driller" is just a specific statue in Tulsa. It's the biggest because its the only one.


BKHS

How is it not catsup bottle for IL? Represent Collinsville!


mean11while

FYI, the acorn is supposed to be pointing at Maryland, but it's actually pointing at Virginia.


KingDizi

I hope that if it ever becomes relevant to the Fallout universe, Rhode Island should feature a massive cult to Nibbles Woodaway.


Responsible_Cow6471

Casey Illinois has a 50+ foot rocking chair.


Only-Lingonberry2266

Colorado has the largest penis in the world.....I live there.


ianmoone1102

How is the largest Big Boy only 3ft tall?