A Roadside Attraction is an interesting sight, along the side of a road made for travelers and tourists.

Most Roadside Attractions are places one might stop on the way to somewhere, rather than actually being a destination.

Some Roadside Attractions are advertised with big billboards along the main highways.

The highway or – Roadside Attraction was as a U.S. and Western Canadian phenomenon in the 1940s to 1960s.

When long-distance road travel became convenient and more popular in the 1920s, entrepreneurs began building restaurants, motels, coffee shops, cafés and more unusual businesses and other sights to attract travelers.

Many of the buildings were attractions themselves like in forms of novelty architecture, depicting common objects of enormous size.

With the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System in the mid-1950s, many Roadside Attractions were bypassed and quickly went out of business.
While some Roadside Attractions managed to lure travelers away from their usual route for a brief pit stop, thus ensuring their continued success.

A prime illustration of this transformation is found along Route 66, where the construction of Interstate 40 in the southwest led to a shift towards faster travel.

• Muffler Man
• Uniroyal Gal
• Fiberglass animals
• Fiberglass statues of all kind
• Unusual shaped buildings
• World’s largest or biggest
• Old signs (advertising, funny, weird)
• Old motels
• Old gas stations
• Old cafés/restaurants
• Old or new amusements parks
• US landmarks
• Route 66 landmarks
• Art (someones life’s work or collection)
• Collections of old cars
• Shops with unusual stuff
• Odd things
• Museum
• Ghost Towns
• Historic sites
• Lighthouses
• Nature (like funny shapes rocks)