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The Hairy Maclary Sculpture is located on the Tauranga waterfront, New Zealand. Hairy Maclary is a fictional dog, the hero of a series of children's picture books created by the New Zealand author Dame Lynley Dodd, and making his first appearance in 1983 with the publication of Hairy Maclary From Donaldson’s Dairy. Hairy Maclary is the protagonist of twelve book...
On a working farm, this innovative motel is off State Highway 3 and 2 km from Waitomo Glowworm Caves. Hobbit-style 2-bedroom apartments include straightforward decor and circular windows. There's a simple 1918-built train carriage with 2 bedrooms. A Vietnam fighter plane offers a unit with a kids’ cockpit sleeping booth, plus a tail section with bunk beds. Some ...
Paeroa is best known for the soft drink Lemon & Paeroa (L&P) originally produced from the town. The soft drink was originally produced using lemon and carbonated mineral water from Paeroa. Today L&P is owned by Coca-Cola and produced on the same production line as other Coca-Cola products sold in New Zealand.
A large L&P bottle stands on the main road ...
Two patrons—nearly the entire population of this remote, three-person North Queensland town—can fit comfortably into this 21-square-foot watering hole. Not surprisingly, Oasis Roadhouse is the tiniest establishment in all of Australia; the bar top itself is only 21 inches wide. The scenery isn't picturesque (it's next to a service station along the Great I...
This shaggy Irish labyrinth is not only the second largest permanent hedge maze in the world, but it is also an ever growing monument to peace in Northern Ireland. Opened in 2001, the maze is composed of over 6,000 yew trees, each planted by a Northern Ireland citizen. The maze is intentionally left a bit shorter than most as yet another aspect designed to promote com...
The "hamburger statue" in Rapid City, South Dakota, is a bronze monument of a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, installed in February 2020 by McDonald's to commemorate the burger's 50th anniversary.
Located outside the McDonald's at 3919 Cheyenne Boulevard, the 23,000-pound, 9-foot-tall statue honors the city for having the highest per capita consumption of Quarter Pound...
The Rising is a memorial located in the Kensico Dam Plaza of Valhalla, Westchester County, New York, created by architect Frederic Schwartz. It stands against the backdrop of Kensico Dam, commemorating the September 11 attacks on America and remembering in a special way the men and women from Westchester County who were victims of those attacks.
The design forThe Risi...
On 15 July 2007, a statue of a giant pink doughnut was erected to promote the upcoming movie,The Simpsons Movie. It was subsequently set alight and destroyed by an arsonist on 25 September 2009. A tyre painted pink was used as a substitute until it was replaced with a concrete version unveiled on 1 July 2012.
Springfield (until 1880 Kowai Pass) is a small town in the ...
A fragment of the original Blarney Stone is immured within a concrete monument in Shamrock's Elmore Park. Apparently it’s been moved 3 times. It's currently at corner of North Main St and West 2nd St.
Historical marker (not shown): "Irish folklore says "you will never be at a loss for words" after kissing the Blarney Stone (also known as The Stone of Eloquence)....
The Thing is an Arizona roadside attraction hyped by signs along Interstate 10 between El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona. A large number of billboards entice travelers along this sparse stretch of desert highway to stop, just to find out what the mysterious Thing might be. The object, supposedly a mummified mother and child, is believed to have been made by exh...