roadside architecture

Discover a variety of eye-catching, head-turning buildings beginning with our nation's oldest functioning example, Lucy the Elephant, to one of our youngest, a beagle named Sweet Willy.

Simple text and photographs introduce the cool and crazy roadside attractions that can be found across America.

Vintage postcards describe the history of New York's Route 20, showing scenes from the Shaker communites in Columbia County to the Lake Erie Shore.

"Introduces the reader to wacky roadside attractions"--Provided by publisher.

Contains nearly two hundred captioned photographs of landmark tourist attractions found along the roadsides of the United States.

Photographic images plus text trace the history of mimetic architecture in the United States.

Photographic images plus text trace the history of mimetic architecture in the United States.

Contains nearly two hundred captioned photographs of landmark tourist attractions found along the roadsides of the United States.