Prada Marfa is a Prada store in the middle of the Texas desert that does no
business. okay it's actually an art installation but it does look like a
real store camera right here right now we're going to the shoe tree which is
just a tree in the middle of the desert with a bunch of shoes on it the shoe
tree is just that a tree adorned with hundreds of pairs of shoes it's
beautiful but also creepy it's like a shoe graveyard Horseshoe Bend is one of
the most incredible views you'll ever see it's near the Grand Canyon and you
can sit down on the edge a thousand feet above the valley below the blue whale of
Oklahoma is in Catoosa near Tulsa and it's well worth the stop it's off old
route 66 one of the most famous roadside attractions on this historic route. okay
so I've been looking forward to this for the whole road trip like twine
the largest ball of twine is one of your must-see roadside attractions famous for
our random and quirky it is it won't let you down oh and the small Kansas town is
all about it literally all about it it's the largest ball of twine in the
world on the smallest painting in the world the largest painting on an easel
in the world is a huge reproduction of a van Gogh painting if you thought the
ball of twine was random check this one out to keep on this largest in the world
track next we go to Washington to see the world's largest egg now this one is
special because it's not actually an egg at least the painting in the ball of
twine no what they truly are we made it here we are the Bonneville Salt Flats is
one of the flattest places on earth it's all salt as far as the eye can see and
you can drive onto the salt and campout for free this is one of the most
incredible places you'll ever lay your eyes on of course the State signs are
great roadside attractions themselves collect as many as you can have you ever
in your life heard a street sing the singing highway is well listen closely
glass beach is a beach of washed up sea glass rather than sand
the gum wall is a wall full of gum thousands and thousands of contributions
that are growing increasingly artistic over the years slab city is the last
free city in America where people live out in the desert on free land and it's
home to this place Salvation Mountain a man-made Mountain created out of one
man's love for God loneliest Road in America is a long stretch of road that
goes through the middle of Nevada and it is lonely there isn't much along this
route except incredible views the Golden Gate Bridge is a famous orange bridge
that you definitely already know about so I won't tell you about it here sub
that Valley of the Gods is a backcountry area
in Utah with towering rock formations all around alright so we just made it to
the four corners monument four corners is a monument showing the only spot
where four states meet you can stand on Arizona New Mexico Colorado and Utah at
the same time chimney tree is a tree that got caught in a fire a hundred
years ago its insides burned out and now you can walk inside and still see the
skies above this is where some of the biggest trees in the whole world
are on the California coast big tree is one of the biggest trees among the
tallest trees in the world there are taller ones but this one is marked for
you so you can find it easily Bourbon Street is one of the craziest streets in
America walk around with your drink and take in live music and New Orleans the
birthplace of jazz graffiti Park is a park infested with graffiti art is
constantly being added on a daily basis bring your own can to contribute
Hamilton pool is a natural pool that you can swim in and even dive in it opens up
below into a long underwater cave
so our next stop here is a ghost town called Terlingua terlingua ghost town is
a ghost town in Texas I mean it's a ghost town what else do I have to say
the earthships and Taos are an art colony of self sustainable homes and
they look like aliens built them there are many places to stop and admire the
Rio Grande but for us we stopped in Taos New Mexico
these petroglyphs are just outside of Santa Fe New Mexico it's one of the
largest collections of native rock art some are thought to go back to 8,000 BC
it's really amazing to me how these aren't even blocked off I can literally
go right up to it and touch it
Mexican hat is a rock formation that looks like a sombrero awesome
Spencer Hot Springs our hot springs smack in the middle of Nevada in the
middle of a desert - with a view
Cabazon dinosaurs are some dinosaurs off the side of the freeway in Southern
California hell yeah sunken city is a broken foundation of
houses streetcar tracks sidewalks and empty streets ruins from an earthquake
about a hundred years ago drive thru tree is a tree that you can drive
through unless you're a van then you have to watch everyone else have the fun
since my car can't fit through we're just gonna have to walk through the
painted ladies are the famous houses from the show full house the devil's
crossroads are the crossroads where legend has it Robert Johnson the famous
early blues musician sold his soul to the devil for the ability to play the
guitar we're right outside of Clarksdale and this is those crossroads all right
so we're at grace lamb the home of Elvis Graceland is Elvis's estate he's buried
inside we didn't go in but you can leave him message this is where Jimi Hendrix
is buried his hometown in Washington Sun Studio is the most famous music studio
in the world this is where Elvis and Johnny Cash got started and many more
famous rock and roll names have made music here