Back in the day (World War II, to be exact), Steve Canyon was what Garfield is today: a must-read Sunday comic for the Wheaties set. So when patriotic Americans in Idaho Springs, Colorado, asked the Feds to pay for a statue of Canyon, a $12,000 check was quickly cut. In July 1950, the larger-than-life limestone likeness was dedicated to, as its plaque reads, "all American cartoon characters who serve the Nation." Intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Miner Street, Idaho Springs, Colorado

6. WORLD'S LARGEST KALEIDOSCOPE
The 1960s are still groovy in Mount Tremper, New York. That's where psychedelic artist Isaac Abrams and his son, Raphael, spent $250,000 in 1996 to create a six-story working kaleidoscope inside a converted silo. Like, far out, man. Emerson Resort & Spa, 5340 Route 28, Mount Tremper, New York

7. CAR SPIKE
Wayne's World made it famous, but the Spindle has been attracting stares in Berwyn, Illinois, since 1989. Dustin Shuler, a California artist, decided the one thing that the city's Cermak Shopping Center was missing was a 40-foot-tall sculpture of eight cars impaled on a towering metal spike. He quickly remedied that. 7043 Cermak Road, Berwyn, Illinois

8. WORLD'S LARGEST LEMON
The urge to write a bad when-life gives- you-lemons pun is killing us, but it'll pass. Instead, we'll indulge ourselves by imagining that when Ron Burgundy said, "You stay classy, San Diego," what he had in mind was the 10-foot-wide concrete lemon that heralds the splendor of nearby suburb Lemon Grove, California. 3361 Main Street, Lemon Grove, California

9. BEER CAN HOUSE