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The definitive index of American roadside oddities: the giant fibreglass animals, the museums devoted to exactly one thing.
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Roadside America sits in Odd Obsessions under Weird, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Sites built by somebody who decided to document a single narrow thing completely. Shoelace knots. Candy wrappers. Utterly sincere.
Yes. Roadside America is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Roadside America without signing up for anything.
Yes. Roadside America works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Sweet wrappers collected and annotated for decades, arranged by how well the graphic design has survived contact with the present.
One cat looking at a monitor showing a cat looking at a monitor, several thousand cats deep and still accepting submissions.
Ten thousand sheep drawn by anonymous online workers paid two cents each, displayed together as one enormous grid.
A team counted every squirrel in Central Park and published the data, the maps and a full illustrated report on the findings.
Sandwiches rotating slowly on a loop, under a tagline that reads simply, and accurately, that's it.
Three colour fields flipping between red, green and blue as you move, a fixture of the useless-web canon and a strobe risk.
Conservation campaign for a cephalopod that lives in trees, used for over twenty years to teach children about checking sources.
Collaborative fiction dressed as containment paperwork for anomalous objects, written by thousands of people in one clinical deadpan.
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