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Roadside Attractions

One more reason to pull over on Route 66.

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The World's Tallest Gas Pump Is Nearly Complete

Say hello to the next giant thing on the old Route 66.

Eric Grundhauser July 24, 2017

The Route 66 record holder was bested by a bigger rocking chair in Illinois.

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How the U.S. Lost the Title for the World's Largest Chair

After a century of states battling it out for the honor, the current record holder is in... Austria.

Kavya Ram Mohan June 22, 2017

Up close and personal with the T-Rex.

Concepción, Chile

Plaza Jurásica

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

On the Way.

On the Way

Enigmatic bug-like sculptures mystify drivers along a Swedish highway.

The Paisano Pete statue

Fort Stockton, Texas

Paisano Pete

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Cumberland, Maryland

LaVale Toll Gate House

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

Raëlian UFO Peace Park

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

30-foot-tall 'Eye' sculpture in Dallas, Texas.

'Eye' Sculpture

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Female lion

Amboy, California

Guardian Lions of Route 66

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The Middlegate Station roadhouse in Nevada has existed since the Pony Express era

Middlegate Station

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Permanently Closed

Fifield, England

Giant Royal Heads

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

The Fireplace of States now at the Bemidji Tourist Information Center.

Bemidji, Minnesota

Fireplace of States

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Oakland, California

Phap Duyen Tu: The Buddha Shrine of Oakland

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

A Horse With No Mane in a 1918 Essex

Permanent Wave Society

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

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Meadville, Pennsylvania

PennDOT Road Sign Sculpture Garden

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

"We had the coffins, and the giant hand, and he was like, 'Oh do the Chuckie!' Then he added the skulls."

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The Wild Legacy of America's Most Eccentric Roadside Attraction

Wild Bill came from a family of die-hard Republicans and clowns, and he created a destination where the only rule is "faster, wilder."

Sarah Laskow May 4, 2017

Hong Kong Willie's is a cacophony of art and reuse.

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In Tampa, a Wonderful World of Junk

Hong Kong Willie is so much more than a roadside attraction.

Eric Grundhauser May 4, 2017

Showtown Drive-In, Monroe, Louisiana.

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A Photographer’s Quest to Find the Last of the Drive-In Theaters

A fade to black for America’s outdoor silver screens.

Anika Burgess April 28, 2017