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These are the places that turn a drive into a story. Browse Ninigret Park’s trolls, Apple Valley Hillbilly Garden, Petersen Rock Garden, Randyland, and many more unusual stops. Each entry provides the background and practical details behind the detour.

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Roadside Attractions

Hodag Statue

Rhinelander, Wisconsin

A huge horned monster with tusks, claws, spikes, and red eyes guards Rhinelander, preserving a local creature that began as an elaborate nineteenth-century hoax.

Curious Landmarks

Very Large Array

Socorro, New Mexico

Twenty-seven giant radio dishes move across a remote desert plain.

Roadside Attractions

Cornhenge: Field of Corn

Dublin, Ohio

One hundred nine human-sized concrete ears of corn stand in precise rows on a former farm, turning an ordinary crop into a surreal suburban army.

Roadside Attractions

Enchanted Highway

Gladstone, North Dakota

A lonely county road crosses the North Dakota prairie past enormous geese, grasshoppers, pheasants, deer, fish, and a towering family built from scrap metal.

Roadside Attractions

Randyland

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Murals, mannequins, mirrors, plastic animals, painted furniture, signs, recycled objects, and relentless color cover nearly every available surface of Randy Gilson's home and courtyard.

Curious Landmarks

Republic of Molossia

Dayton, Nevada

A self-proclaimed micronation in a Dayton neighborhood stamps passports and bans contraband onions.

Roadside Attractions

W’eel Turtle

Dunseith, North Dakota

More than two thousand steel wheel rims were welded into an enormous turtle whose open metal shell looks part animal, part industrial machine.

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Popcorn Ball

Sac City, Iowa

More than 9,000 pounds of popcorn, syrup, and civic determination sit behind glass in a roadside pavilion.

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Green Animals Topiary Garden

Portsmouth, Rhode Island

More than eighty topiary animals and figures fill a seven-acre estate where shrubs have been trained into bears, birds, a giraffe, a camel, a unicorn, and…

Curious Landmarks

Big Easel

Goodland, Kansas

An 80-foot easel holds a 24-by-32-foot Van Gogh reproduction above a western Kansas park devoted to sunflowers.

Roadside Attractions

Cadillac Ranch

Amarillo, Texas

Ten Cadillacs have been buried nose-first in a Texas field since 1974, where generations of visitors have buried them again beneath layer after layer of spray…

Roadside Attractions

Mystery Hole

Ansted, West Virginia

A wildly painted roadside building hides rooms where gravity seems unreliable, balls behave incorrectly, and visitors struggle to trust their own sense of level.