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The Cadillac Ranch, located along the remnants of old Route 66 (now I-40), is an intriguing roadside curiosity, to say the least.
The "ranch," which consists of ten graffiti-covered Cadillacs, upright and half-buried in a barren field in the middle of practically nowhere, was created in 1974. Amarillo's version of Stonehenge was cooked up by Stanley Marsh III, a local helium tycoon.
He and a group of artists, called the Ant Farm, supposedly assembled the sculpture to represent the "golden age" of American automobiles, but one has to wonder if something stronger than temperance beverages were involved in concocting this idea.
Most people who visit the site leave their mark on it—literally—so don't forget to bring your can of spray paint along. You get all the benefits of feeling like a miscreant without besmirching your clean record.
In August, the Caddies were painted solid pink in order to raise breast cancer awareness. By the time I visited them in November, though, the pink had almost disappeared beneath layers of fresh, multi-colored graffiti.
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Taking Texas by the Handle