Cadillac Ranch, outside Amarillo Texas

Cadillac Ranch is on historic Route 66 in Amarillo Texas. The “ranch” is comprised of 10 Cadillac cars “planted” face down and at an angle, the same angle as the sides of Great Pyramid of Cheops, in the Texas desert. The cars themselves were build between 1949 and 1963 but weren’t planted until 1973 when Stanley Marsh 3 (not III) commissioned the work as a lasting memorial to his “Ant Farm” social collective.

Today, people from all over the world come to this monument stuck in the middle of nowhere simply for the purpose of painting the cars the way they see fit. The layers and layers of old paint are pretty much the only thing holding the old junk-heaps together.