You can visit six Moai statues in Tullahoma, Tenn.
Artist Steve Smith in Tullahoma, Tenn., built six replicas of the Moai monuments, also known as "Easter Island heads," located on a remote Pacific isle. The Tennessee replicas make a fun roadside attraction and draw tourists to the area.Unless you count the heat, the streets of Tullahoma, Tenn., have very little in common with Easter Island, a tiny spit of land off the coast of Chile.
The six statues, which include a small one with a hole for children to place their faces for photo opps, stand near the L&N Railroad tracks, where Smith placed them so he can keep an eye on them. He said he got permission from the president of the railroad. The site, which Smith keeps mowed and trash-free, includes parking spaces and cameras to prevent vandalism.
“They don’t know who made them,” he said. Archeologists determined they were made by natives called the Rapa Nui, but Smith says recent studies shed doubt on that theory.
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