Weird outdoor & roadside things to do in Nashville
Looking for weird outdoor & roadside oddities in Nashville? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Fannie Mae Dees Park ("Dragon Park"), Ghost Ballet for East Bank Machineworks, Stix and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Nashville they'd never find on their own.
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Fannie Mae Dees Park ("Dragon Park")
A 200-foot cement-and-wire sea serpent — everyone calls it a dragon, but it's technically a serpent — winds t…
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Ghost Ballet for East Bank Machineworks
A 100-foot-tall tangle of red-painted steel trusses spiraling off a deconstructed gantry crane, with a ground…
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Stix
Twenty-seven cedar poles up to 70 feet tall, ringed in bold blue and orange bands and planted at irregular an…
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Elephant Gallery
A self-taught Seattle artist's curatorial project turned this North Nashville storefront into a gallery-and-s…
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The Red Arrow Gallery
An East Nashville storefront gallery that has hosted mid-century-referencing sculptures burned and wax-sealed…