In the 1920s, due to the newfound accessibility of cars, long-distance driving became an option for Americans looking to travel. Suddenly, more people were careening down long highways, bored, with nothing to do but look out the window, and entrepreneurs got to work, building roadside structures constructed in fantastical shapes: restaurants that looked like hats, water towers shaped like teacups, souvenir shops inside of a dinosaur’s belly, and more. There’s a surreality to elongated car travel—punch-drunk exhaustion lends itself to odd visions, and it feels perfectly natural to say why yes, of course, let’s stop and eat inside of this goose. There are roadside attractions that fall into the category of “The World’s Largest”: the world’s largest chair, duck, teapot, ball of stamps, ball of twine, etc. A friend recently sent me a photo of herself with my personal favorite roadside attraction: The Biggest Pistachio, located in Alamogordo, New Mexico.…