USA Americana

America boasts the biggest, smallest, and zaniest of almost everything. Kitschy roadside attractions dot the country’s dusty roads, putting on public display a vast and truly baffling material culture. Out west in Polson, MT, the Miracle of America Museum enshrines reg’lar ol’ American living. Evidence of American architectural ingenuity can be found at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD ; this gargantuan structure is rebuilt every year with a fresh crop. America also claims the largest operational chainsaw near Marquette, MI , and the world’s largest folding pocketknife in Natchitoches, LA , neither of which can quite compete with the magnitude of Carhenge—a scale model of Stonehenge built from 36 old cars just north of Alliance, NE . Bigger and brighter still are the lights of Times Square in New York and the Strip in Las Vegas, NV . And no tour of American kitsch would be complete without a trip to the heart and soul of all Americana—Elvis’s Graceland .

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