Ten Extremely Australian Big Things Worth a Detour on Your Next Very Long Road Trip – Concrete Playground

There are more than 150 Big Things across Australia — from the five-metre high can of Tooheys New that crowns a pub in the outback town of Cobar to the controversial Big Bogan of Nyngan, 190 kilometres northwest of Dubbo. These Big Things have become something of an obsession for Australians — in 2007 Australia Post even promoted them on a series of 50-cent stamps — perhaps for the way they’re uniquely Australian, silly and provide a beacon of life on seemingly endless highways through hot, dry, barren country (or, at the very least, a toilet stop).

Just this week, we scored a new large object when the Big Melon — a three by nine-metre slice of juicy goodness — was unveiled in Chinchilla, Queensland. Next time you go…