10 Quirky Roadside Attractions: U.S. Weirdness

0:00It's April 16th. I'm Cory with the story, and this is California News today. Your AI-powered local news. Parade magazine just dropped a fresh list of 10 roadside attractions across the U.S. that are still prime spots to pull over for some real Americana. Bives. We're talking Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, where Cadillac's dug out of the ground like ancient monuments and Lucy the Elephant, a six-story, beast in New Jersey, that's the oldest novelty building still standing. A bunch of these spots play with cars and wild ways, like Carhenge and Nebraska, mimicking Stonehenge with old rides or the international car-forced in. Go field Nevada, stacking vehicles into trippy towers. Then there's Salvation Mountain down in California, a massive hillside painted with spiritual messages near the Salton Sea. Folks love these for the quirky photo ops and off-be history. Salvation Mountain even popped up in the movie into the wild. Police snap picks at places like Foamhenge in Virginia, or the mystery spot in Santa Cruz,

1:02where gravity seems to flip out. The list rounds out with Wall Drug and South Dakota for its endless kitch, South of the border in South Carolina, for border town flair, and THE. World's largest ball of twine in Kansas. Parade calls them bucket list gems that beat the ordinary highway grind. If you're road tripping soon, hit one of these to feel that classic U.S. weirdness first-hand pure detour magic.