Chicago, Illinois
Beginning (and End) of Historic Route 66
A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.
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Chicago, Illinois
A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.
Conyers, Georgia
A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.
High Point, North Carolina
A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.
Woodstock, Maine
A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.
Marietta, Georgia
This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.
Atlanta, Georgia
A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.
Conley, Georgia
An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.
Riverdale, Georgia
A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Anniston, Alabama
What better place to take a seat?
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Montgomery, Alabama
A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.
Asheville, North Carolina
This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Freeport, Maine
This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Buena Vista, Georgia
This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.
Eufaula, Alabama
That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.
Atlanta, Georgia
Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.