Before interstate highways got efficient and GPS got bossy, American road trips ran on a different logic. You followed the signs — hand-painted ones, barn-sized ones, the kind that started teasing you forty miles out with countdown promises of something enormous or inexplicable or both. The roadside attraction was a genuine institution, born out of the automobile era and the very human need to make a long drive into something worth remembering. …
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