Roadside attractions

[AMGeneral]

Saw this and thought, there has got to be more hidden gems like this. Got any to share?

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/30684

[oldbike54]

 I've actually seen the space capsule . There has been some local discussion re moving it to a safer location and creating a permanent monument . Thanks Rod 

 Dusty

[AMGeneral]

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12108

Got a laugh out of this one too.

Neat site to wonder around on.

[Daniel Kalal]

Saw this and thought, there has got to be more hidden gems like this. Got any to share?

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/30684

I dunno; how about the wild attack-cats of Spivey?

[Chuck in Indiana]

Lots of em.  I've always thought this would make an interesting thread during the off season.. or.. during the riding season as an excuse to go somewhere and take a picture. I have pictures of muffler men and my bike from all over the country, for instance.  These were giant fiberglass guys that were born in California, and have migrated all over the country. They come in all kinds of variations, but were originally designed to hold a muffler in their hands. My gerbil powered ISP is running too slowly to upload a picture right now, though, or I'd add one. Maybe in the morning.

[Daniel Kalal]

I have pictures of muffler men and my bike from all over the country, for instance...

I'm afraid the Stelvio was a bit too slow on the draw in Conlen, Texas...

[Wayne Orwig]

Besides the Roadside America web site, I also found a book called "Weird Georgia". It has a lot of oddball places in Georgia that I have been seaking out when I get a chance.
They have them for other states too.
http://www.amazon.com/Weird-Georgia-Georgias-Legends-Secrets/dp/1402733887/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457314050&sr=8-1&keywords=weird+georgia

Needless to say, there are a lot of oddballs in Georgia.

[Chuck in Indiana]

I'm afraid the Stelvio was a bit too slow on the draw in Conlen, Texas...

I don't think that's an official muffler man, Daniel. 

[oldbike54]

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12108

Got a laugh out of this one too.

Neat site to wonder around on.

 For those of you who simply refused to believe I was broadcasting from a submarine 

 Dusty

[AMGeneral]

I dunno; how about the wild attack-cats of Spivey?

Attack cat? The one on the right is/was my cat. She went outside one day and never returned. Have no idea what happened to her. You were lucky to get that shot. She was probably seconds from bolting out of there.

[Penderic]

We should also have a thread about all the annoying and interesting stuff that we see being transported on the roads too.

I dont like riding near vehicles that look like they are going to fall apart.... hanging muffler, ratty looking tires, smoking exhaust etc. Propane tankers, sewage and other smelly transports, gravel-dirt-straw-sand haulers, school busses full of young kids throwing stuff out the windows, wide and heavy loads that look dangerous .....

 

[guzziknight]

They also have a Roadside America app that I use whenever I travel. I've found lots of cool things all over using it. You can even pre-plan and save the places you want to go to.

[Chuck in Indiana]

This is my latest Muffler man sighting. The Kid and I were out roaring around in Iowa last summer, and passed this guy and his bull. Didn't know there was a MM hanging out in Iowa..
1-027 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr

[swordds]

What is the machine gun looking thing on the flat bed truck?  A prop for some scfi movie, or do they really make those death-star looking devices?

For years I would pass these extra-long, extra-wide load escorted tractor/trailer trucks hauling large (about the size of a house) amorphous shaped, windowless fiberglass structures on I-10, some heading east and some heading west. I thought they might be intended for burial as bomb shelters but could never guess what they might be until one day I saw two trucks with their escorts pulled out at a rest stop. So I stopped to talk to the truck drivers. It turns out they are the housing units for very large GE windmill generators. The empty shells are shipped east to a GE plant in Pascagoula where the generators are installed and then the completed units are shipped from there to where ever.

[Waltr]

  Any excuse for a ride. There is a Off-The-Beaten-Path book for a number of states. 

[cj750]

Dusty and I stopped by Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska on our way back from Sturgis a few years ago.


It's just down the road from this rest stop.


Later in the same trip we made a stop at the World's Largest Hand Dug Well in Greensburg, KS.


I made it to my personal "Holy Grail" of roadside attractions last year. The biggest ball of twine in Minnesota:

[Chuck in Indiana]

Alrighty, now.. let's see some more stuff.. 

[Chuck in Indiana]

Here's one in Dusty's neck of the woods, the blue whale in Ok. 
 

[cj750]

Perhaps not much of an "attraction" for the younger crowd, but an interesting stop in western Arkansas for those who remember:

[Penderic]

I think the gun like thing was a movie prop although I dont recognize it from any movie that I've seen. Closest real life gun like that is this canon from a A10 Warthog .... it is big!