World's Largest Baseball Bat

My word I finally found it!!! I have been to Edmonton , Alberta 4 times searching for it and gave up each time because it was nowhere in sight. Finally this time before I went I did more research and found out that the sight where I got the address from was wrong. This bat is at the corner of 97th street NW and 118th ave. It's a little hard to get to because the corner is super busy and in fact I passed it once and had to turn around which is not surprizing. When it comes to this bat and I, it's almost like a love/hate relationship. Also it's a little bit of a dodgy area. I didn't stay for very long at all, pretty much took the picture and ran back to my car. The bat is made out of aluminum and is 15 meters long. It was erected in 2001 when Edmonton renamed 118th ave to 'Avenue of Champions'. It really isn't all that exciting but I am super excited because it took so long to find it! FINALLY!!!!

World's Largest Tomato

So it's been a busy year I haven't been able to get out and tour very much but while I was in Ontario visiting family and friends I decided I needed to stop and see at least one thing.
The world's largest tomato is in Leamington, Ontario. It is 14 feet high and 20 feet wide and was built in 1961. It also serves as a tourist booth, there is a window on the other side but it was closed when I was there :( I lived in Windsor for 4 years while I went to school and never had any interest in venturing over to Leamington to see the tomato or for any other reason :) but this summer as I was visiting a friend I stopped by to see it. I'm actually quite surprized I found it because I didn't have my gps to rely on, I had to read a map lol which I'm not good at. I found the town easily but circled around for 10 minutes trying to find the tomato before stopping at Tim Horton's to ask for help. I must admit that many Tim Horton's workers and gas station attendents have helped me find more than one world's largest monuments on my journey and they all have the same reaction. After I ask where it is they all give me the same confussed look like they are thinking why in the world is this person looking for that? Then they point me in the right direction because of course they know where it is even if they don't think it's cool. I'm sure I will depend on many more workers to help me in the future :) I thought it was funny because right beside the tomato they had a fenced in area with fake wood tomato head people, I'm not really sure why.

World's Largest Turtle

This has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen. It is the world's largest turtle made entirely of wheel rims. It is located in Dunseith North Dakota on ND hwy 3 just north of the intersection with ND 5. His name is W'eel and he is made out of over 2000 wheel rims. His head alone weighs 1 ton. I didn't know this until I got home but apparently you can make the head bob up and down. I wish I knew that before because that would have been fun to do. This was the last world's largest I got to see on my trip to Minneapolis and I think it was the best one to end with. I loved it!

World's Largest Bird house

The world's largest bird house is in Audubon, Minnesota. It really was not very spectacular. I think I could make a bird house bigger than this one. I won't though because I don't like birds and don't want to give them a place to live but I could. It is located behind the only bar in town beside the liqour store :) I didn't know where it was at first and drove around trying to find it then I saw a woman outside smoking so I thought I would ask her. She wasn't from Audubon and had no idea what I was talking about but suggested I go in and ask the waitress. As I was walking to the door the woman asked again what I was looking for then told me there was a bird house around the corner but it wasn't very big. I went to check it out and turns out that's what I was looking for. The woman and I both agree it shouldn't be a world's largest but it is.

World's Largest Turkey

My next stop was to Frazee, Minnesota to see the world's largest turkey. Well technically it is the second world's largest because the first one went up in flames in 1998 while people were repairing it getting it ready for Turkey Days Festival. Only a few months later the town of Frazee built a new Big Tom. He is located on top of a hill in Lions Park on the southwest side of town off of hwy 29 on route 10. Big Tom is 22 feet tall. He's one big turkey!

World's Largest Loon

The world's largest loon is in Vergas, Minnesota located in City Park on the north shore of long lake on hwy 228. I've decided to name the loon Larry. Larry is 20 feet tall. He was paid for by the fire department in dedication to the town postmaster. I'm not really sure what a postmaster is but I think it has to do with the post office, that's just my guess though. When I was there I met a couple also visiting Larry and touring world's largest things, but only in Minnesota. They had a very fancy expensive camera and for some reason trusted me to take their picture with it. I really thought that I was going to drop it because I'm not the most graceful person and I was thinking I would have to make a quick get away because there is no way I can afford to pay for it. Luckily nothing happened. They were a nice couple though and had told me that one of them was on their second trip seeing all the world's largest in Minnesota because she saw them all when she was a kid and loved them. I think that's awesome.

World's Largest Clothes Pin

About 2 seconds down the road from the foot is the clothes pin. Maybe I should pay a little more attention when I am driving and I wouldn't miss these things :) It's a giant old style clothes pin. After I found it I searched the town again and couldn't find the doorknob or the electric cord plug. I guess I'll have to go back again to Vining one day with someone so that they can help me find the other 2 world's largest.