No committee approved any of these. A camel made from an oil drum, a tower built for a family’s goats, a starship in a town that leaned into its name, and a Death Valley signpost lettered in molten metal — each one exists because somebody decided it should.
A homemade carnival float that never left its Somerset field
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A 30-foot brick tower built exclusively for the family's climbing goats
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A prairie town that leaned all the way into sharing its name with Spock's planet
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The nine-year-old who rode his pony 600 miles to watch the Sydney Harbour Bridge open
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A 3-meter tortilla sculpted with 450 scenes of Mexican history
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A Death Valley junction marked by a pile of abandoned engine crankshafts
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