Roadside Attractions
Muffler men, giant food and the beautifully strange along the American highway
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Roadside Giants
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Roadside Oddities
The genuinely inexplicable: places whose only reason to exist is that someone did it.
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Muffler Men
The fiberglass giants of International Fiberglass — fewer than 200 still standing.
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Big Food
Giant roadside food sculptures and quirky food museums across America.
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Buildings That Look Like Things
Duck and mimetic architecture — the 1920s-50s boom of programmatic buildings shaped like what they sold.
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Aliens & Cryptids
UFO watchtowers, alien highways, and the cryptid legends that put small towns on the map.
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Folk Art Environments
Sites one untrained person spent a lifetime building, usually alone.
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Roadside Statues
Commissioned civic sculpture — the monuments towns paid for and became known for.
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