What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs the
happiest place on earth not really but it is Father's Day as I record this and
every Father's Day I make it a point to exaggerate my importance to everyone
that'll listen congratulations you're it this year I know that's weird but so are
a lot of things on today's list across this great country we have some weird
stuff a lot of that weirdness is dotted around the country and we call them
roadside attractions ever since people started crossing this country in
automobiles other people tried to figure out ways to make a buck off them and the
roadside attraction was born today we're looking at some of the best and most
famous roadside attractions in the United States
let's take a look number 10 the Cadillac Ranch and Murillo Texas this is a
sculpture made of ten Cadillacs as a monument to the Golden Age of American
automobiles it was built in 1974 by eccentric helium millionaire
Stanley March the third eccentric helium millionaire that is the greatest title
ever oh my god I love that I wish I was an eccentric helium millionaire that is
terrific the cars are positioned nose down and face Wes at the same angle as
the pyramids do the cars originally didn't have any graffiti but soon after
people started visiting they put their own graffiti up there their own art I
guess you could say these days they encourage graffiti in 2005 the cars were
given an all pink makeover a tribute to breast cancer awareness and later
painted black and yellow in honor of the passing of one of mr. Marsh's longtime
friends this one you've seen it in movies or whatever it's very much
photographed and filmed roadside attraction
number nine the Kansas barbed-wire Museum La Crosse Kansas they call it the
Kansas barbed wire museum because there's other ones yeah really
I wouldn't think there's enough market for one much less a few the Kansas
barbed wire museum is a barbed wire museum in case the name didn't tip you
off I got you covered La Crosse Kansas is known as the barbed
wire capital of the world the museum focuses on barbed wire and its history
displaying over 2,000 different forms of barbed wire barbed wire played a
significant role in the history of the settlement of the United States and
forever changed the face the prairies what they say it really does change the
face of war - but they really don't touch on that at the museum from what I
understand if I'm wrong please let me know in the comment section I've never
been to this one even though it's on my bucket list number eight the world's
largest chests and drawers High Point North Carolina High Point North Carolina
is also known as the furniture capital world so this one kind of makes sense
the dresser was first built in 1926 by the highpoint Chamber of Commerce and at
the time the 20 foot tall building with knobs served as a local Bureau of
Information Bureau gettin' I think it's funny anyway it was
restored in 1996 and out of the center drawers hangs a mismatched pair of neon
colored socks each six feet long at nearly 40 feet tall the colossal chest
is roughly the size of a large house or small building which in fact is this is
actually a facade for an office space that was up for sale for a while and it
was going for two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars you could
own the world's largest chest and drawers for only two hundred thirty-five
thousand dollars how cool is that I think it's sold already though but
would that be cool number seven the world's largest collection of the
world's smallest versions of the world's largest things
Lucas Kansas that's confusing I know this is a store run by Erika Nelson so
it sounds like she has miniature versions of things like the pyramids
Titanic maybe the Spruce Goose Twin Towers stuff that's huge that she has
the smallest versions of not this girl she sticks to roadside attractions she
visits all the biggest roadside attractions takes pictures then comes
home and makes the mini version of it like the biggest ball of twine the
biggest paintball I know it sounds weird Nelson makes the world's smallest
versions of the world's largest things from all kinds of materials for example
she replicated the world's largest ball of rubber bands by using miniature
rubber bands that you'd find at the orthodontist office Nelson is an artist
educator and one of the America's foremost experts on speaking on the
world's largest things Wow didn't see that one coming
number six the world's biggest ball of paint Alexandria Indiana this all
started in 1977 when mike carmichael LED his young son cover a baseball in blue
house paint I guess the young Carmichael didn't realize his father had some
obsessive compulsive issues they continued this exercise and family style
mental illness for many years more than four decades later an almost 25,000
coats of paint it's a 4,000 pound roadside attraction
they allow visitors to add coats of paint when they come to see it you can
choose your color whichever you want from different buckets of paint they
have they're the most popular is blue it lost its spherical shape a couple
decades ago and now some say it looks like a giant set of semi-gloss testicles
number five hole in the rock Monticello Utah located 12 miles south of Moab Utah
on US Highway 191 the hole in the rock was once a 5,000 square foot 14 room
family home that was built inside a giant rock
the owners Albert and Gladys Christiansen lived here until Albert's
death in 1957 it took Albert 12 years of digging carving and blasting before he
was able to move his family in it required 50,000 cubic feet of sand stone
excavation both mr. and mrs. christensen were buried on the grounds of the rock
they called their home for all those years among the attractions are a
fireplace with a 65-foot chimney drilled through solid sandstone a deep fryer and
a bathtub built into the rock this attraction is available for tours just
call ahead I guess I don't know we're just show up they got a good sized
parking lot and they sell a lot of souvenirs and have a petting zoo
apparently I mean what good roadside attraction doesn't have a petting zoo
number 4 Salvation Mountain slab City California Salvation Mountain is a
man-made Mountain by a man who wanted to show his devotion to God Leonard Knight
the mountain is located off highway 111 about 80 miles southeast of Palm Springs
and it's really close to the Salton Sea and if you've ever seen that place or
visited you'd probably assume God forgot about it years ago it is made of Adobe
clay and covered in thousands of gallons of colorful paint features murals
messages imagery depicting Bible verses all that good religious stuff Salvation
Mountain is open from dawn until dusk and it's in the middle of the frickin
desert so make sure you set out early and wear sunblock the Creator Leonard
Knight died in 2014 visitors bring paint to donate to the
project and a group of volunteers have been working to protect and maintain the
site so that's good but I've seen this thing on like different news things over
the years it's it's quite a quite an achievement for a man that pretty much
in the beginning worked on it alone number three the gum wall Seattle
Washington down an alley next to Seattle's famous Pike Place Market is a
hidden work of art dubbed the gum wall or the wall of gum they call it a work
of art I call it a potential host for deadly viruses it represents Seattle's
unique charm and character they say I think it represents Seattle's inability
to throw anything away these people go overboard with recycle and apparently
they're doing it with gum the walls started in the 1990s when local patrons
in line for an improv show at post Ali's Market Theatre stuck their gum to the
wall and it stayed there and it continued to grow until for three days
on November 10th in 2015 the Pike Place Market preservation and Development
Authority pressure-washed scraped and cleaned the wall for the
first time in over 20 years but beginning the very next weekend locals
and tourists collected the police started to recreate the wall in the same
location as before so they wasted their time the cleaning took 130 hours to
complete with over 2,300 pounds of gum being removed the market officially
deemed the gum wall a tourist attraction in 1999 and now they just kind of leave
it there even though they did clean it in 2015 number two the singing highway
Albuquerque New Mexico if drivers cross the rumble strips on the stretch of
route 66 at just the right speed it plays America the Beautiful the
individual strips had to be placed at a precise distance from one another to
produce the notes needed drivers have to go to speed exactly 45 miles an hour to
hear the song if you go over that speed limit it plays Rebecca Black's Friday
and you crash into a ditch it's designed to encourage drivers on this basically
lonely stretch a land to slow down and stick to the speed limit
the musical highway is eastbound on route 333 between mile marker 4 and 5
near exit 170 enjoy that one and number one the largest ball of twine
Kocher Kansas Frank Stover started the world's largest ball of twine in 1953
and that right there answers that age-old question what did they do before
computers Stauber gave the ball of twine to Cawker City Kansas in 1961 every
August a twine thon has happened like a twine a Palooza more twine is added to
the ball by the community and visitors that show up for twine a Palooza or
whatever they call it twine thumb I liked wine and Palooza better in August
of 2014 the ball measured 41 feet in circumference eight feet in diameter and
almost 11 feet in height still growing the world's largest ball of twine kind
of stinks from moisture and decay it's kind of gross from what I understand the
city does still love their ball of twine and they have pictures painted of it all
over town people are actually painting pictures of the world's largest ball of
twine yeah that's something else they did
before computers painted and in this case large balls of twine alright that
is today's list I hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of
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