PROFILE
FROM Marissa Gawel
Roadside attractions from Motor City to the Big Easy Summer is the time for road trips, and in the west that can mean desert highways, teepee motels and giant dinosaur sculptures. But we’re not the only part of the country that boasts the distinctly American tradition of the roadside attraction.
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