Cool roadside attractions....post em here

Soulsby Station on Rt 66 in Mt Olive, IL, and Our Lady of the Highway on 66 in Waggoner, IL, and Paul Bunyon holding his weiner in Litchfiled, IL I believe it was.

 

Check out this great site - great for planning your trip.

http://roadsidepeek.com/

Roadside America at its best!

 

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The UFO Watchtower on Highway 17 in Hooper, CO. The woman that owns this is great. It's free, and there is a little gift shop. A bus-load of German tourists had their tour driver take them there fron Santa Fe! lol

 

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this is the best i can do, all of my stuff is packed up.

this is the cafe on the east side of the building.

 

mmmm....roadside distractions.....I meant attractions...

 

Here is another one from Shamrock, TX

 

That's the one...

 

My favorite (and unfortunately I do NOT have a photo) was a billboard I saw while driving thropugh Central Montana. It had a picture of a cartoon cow who looked rather nervous, and the caption read "Rocky Mountain Oyster festival....Come on down and HAVE A BALL!!!"

I about pissed myself laughing.

 

Here is the Blue Whale along RT66 in Oklahoma.

 

On RT66 again, Standard Station in Odell, IL.

 

Damn! Now that's funny! (I hate cats, someone in the apartments behind my house feeds strays so they hang out under my cars all the time and piss on stuff)

 

Damn Mark, that's a *****in' little trailer.

I reckon I'll see you and Mo at Vegas in afew weeks.

 

That sure sounds like Pioneer Auto in Murdo. Yes that place is the deal!

 

Try this,www.waterwinterwonderland.com for Michigan sites

 

here by the house on i-35, there is a building surplus store. their sign reads

" the only place with more trim than the ******* mansion!"

i crack up everytime i see it

 

Last spring I made my first trip up the coast to Big Sur, CA. I think this is the biggest roadside attraction I've ever seen. I liked it so much I'm going back up the coast to go camping again.

 

Not really an attraction, more of a distraction. Futuro ufo house in Rockwall tx, now being restored.

 

lovely, Baker, Ca. on the way to the hot rod reunion.

 

This is not exactly a roadside attraction but here are 2 photos I took today in front of the A&W downtown Modesto, California today.

 

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I would definetly visit this place especially once the planned obsolescence was eliminated

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you gotta go to leakey texas. its south and west of austin. leakey is a crossroad intersection town, really small but alotta people go down there because the roads are so kicka$$. you have to do fm335, fm336, fm337. the creeks are clear and the beer is cold and people are friendly. texas keeps the road in really good shape too so it wont beat up your suspension. right in the middle of town at the 4 way stop is the frio canyon motorcycle stop. its not shop just some tables and shade trees and a place to get a cold drink and hang out by an old barn. theyre good folks there . see ya down the road

 

When going to and from Paso Robles, hwy 46 we used to go by the site where James Dean fatal car crash happened. Amazing how serene and unchanged by time this place still seems.

 

Great thread! Guys can you show me some art deco dinners and gas stations please!

 

How about this ? Aussie art-deco.

 

It's Dave Geisler's Pioneer Auto Show in beautiful downtown Murdo, SD
http://pioneerautoshow.com/

 

There's a little teapot gas station just out of Top*****h Washington, I don't have any pics of it, but here's one I found online:


Of course, here in Chehalis we have a giant duck:


If you're coming across Oregon on Hwy 84 you need to cross the river at Biggs Junction and check out the Stonehenge replica and the Maryhill Museum.

There are so many I can think of, but the one place I stopped that really, really impressed me was the Crazy Horse monument south of Rapid City, South Dakota:


The scale of this thing is so hard to comprehend, but if you've ever been to Mt. Rushmore, this is bigger, much, much bigger...


...those little dots on his arm are trucks! This is truly one of those places you must go to before you die! When we were there I was going through their museum and following this lady. She went into a room and I followed her into the library. Turns out she was the daughter of the fellow who started all this, a very nice lady who lives with history every day.

 

The main street in the Museum has more buildings than the main street in town.Spent the night there 2 years ago. Then drove to Wall Drug for coffee ( 1 cent for coffee, good deal )

 

Saw this guy roadside in Virgin, Ut. the other day. Seems pretty cool.