"At countless stops along the old highways travelers could find all manner of attractions like the “World’s Largest Ball of Paint”, “Cadillac Ranch”, and “The Thing”, giving birth to an entire culture of kitsch, monuments to the mammoth, and shrines to the strange.
The history of these roadside attractions - or less charitably, tourist traps - predates even the highways they dotted.
This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration.
As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. "
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