These odd diversions make for family fun on your all-American summer road trip.

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These odd diversions make for family fun on your all-American summer road trip. From August 2010 By Lyndsey Matthews, Adam McCulloch, Joshua Pramis

As you squint through the windscreen, the freeway emerges from a heat haze in the lonely heart of the Nevada desert. Amid miles of featureless landscape, a single cottonwood tree suddenly looms. But you do a double take: instead of flowers, thousands of shoes bloom from the branches. This is no mirage: this is the Shoe Tree, one of America’s strangest roadside attractions.

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A recent survey that asked travelers to name the most "unusual"  roadside attractions they've visited has come up with a list that's pretty unusual in and of itself (see photogallery above).

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A recent survey that asked travelers to name the most “unusual”  roadside attractions they’ve visited has come up with a list that’s pretty unusual in and of itself (see photogallery above).

For one thing, California only lays claim to one spot on the list: the World’s Largest Pez Dispenser, found at the Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia (although the Pez Visitor Center at the candy factory in Orange, Conn., also boasts a “world’s largest” dispenser.)  What, no drive-through trees? No Mystery Spot? No giant statue of Junipero Serra holding a yo-yo that says “Beat Cal”? (Oh wait, I guess that was a one-time visual.)

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