No injuries were reported, thankfully, but the retired couple’s recently renovated home was totalled. One night, in April 1995, the giant rock rolled down the abutting hill and crashed into what was then Maxine and Dwight Anderson’s bedroom. And what you see is most definitely what you get: The modest brick house, perched at the bottom of a tall cliffside, showcases a 55-ton boulder lodged in its gaping back room. But despite all House on the Rock’s curiosities, Fountain City’s Rock in the House is a much, much more peculiar sight.Ĭruise along the northern portion of Wisconsin’s scenic Great River Road and, out of the corner of your eye, you might just spot a wooden sign announcing the pull-off for Rock in the House. Its wonders are well documented, a major tourist attraction for anyone winding their way along Southern Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright Trail. AKĪrchitecture buffs will have undoubtedly heard of the House on the Rock, eccentric builder Alex Jordan’s 1960 home-turned-offbeat museum near Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Just grab a "where the heck is Wall Drug" bumper sticker, eat a donut, and soak in the Americana. At the intersection of East and West, North and South, it's one of the last places to get gas for a while, regardless of where you're going. ![]() And even if you wish to avoid it, you kind of can't. You can't miss it-not only because it's massive, but because you'll see hundreds of hand-painted signs across multiple states, luring tourists in with the promise of free ice water and $.05 coffee (the ice water's great, BTW, the coffee not so much). An actual drug store, where you can get a prescription filled and also see a gigantic animatronic dinosaur or cowboy band, peruse Native American art, eat an open-face turkey sandwich, play in a shooting gallery, or snap a photo with a jackalope. A necessary pitstop in the middle of capital-N Nowhere. It's a city-sized paragon of Western kitsch. Wall Drug is the roadside attraction to end all roadside attractions rising out of the prehistoric landscape preceding the Badlands. ![]() If nostalgia was a place, this would be it. Today, passersby can visit the tiny metropolis, pop into the general store, snap selfies in front of the vintage tractor, and admire Davis’ art scattered around the grounds. Determined not to let his childhood home go down without a fight, Davis purchased a piece of property about 20 miles from the OG site and began building. The mastermind behind this roadside icon grew up in the real Red Oak, a once thriving Missouri hamlet that, by the time the adult Davis returned to check on it in the 1980s, had been abandoned due to economic strain and urbanization. In fact, every inch of the tiny village, from its retro diner to its dusty blacksmith shop, has been completely manufactured by the late Lowell Davis. Looks, of course, can be deceiving, and Red Oak II is anything but untouched. Veer off Route 66 in Carthage, and you’ll soon find yourself in a bizarre little corner of the world: an idyllic small town, seemingly untouched since the 1950s. If you need a little help, we’ve narrowed down the weirdest ones from each and every state. ![]() Point your compass in their direction, and your road trip automatically becomes more interesting. These are the true gems, the paragons of off-highway kitsch and wonder. For every “mystery spot” or "world’s largest" random object, there are hundreds of oversized cooking utensils and fossil farms waiting to lure you off the beaten path. And thankfully, America’s roadways deliver.īut while the country is dotted with random nonsense, not all are created equal. And while today’s version of road trip may be very different from our parents’ (particularly if it’s a cannabis-friendly one), there’s one thing that cheesy playlists and retro snacks can’t even begin to compare with-ridiculously weird roadside attractions. Road trips and RV convoys are just as fashionable on Instagram now as that trip to Bali was a few years back. All you need is a pandemic to make everyone nostalgic for the past.
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