Cadillac Ranch, Texas

This American landmark, composed of ten vintage Cadillacs buried nose-first in a field outside Amarillo, was originally installed in 1974. It was conceived by a group of artists and architects known as Ant Farm (Chip Ward, Hudson Marquez, and Doug Michaels), and it was funded and seen through by the notorious Amarillo resident, Stanley Marsh III (Stanley Marsh III was responsible for a host of unusual sights around Amarillo including Floating Mesa, a giant moveable pool table, Robert Smithson's Amarillo Ramp, and a rash of over 2,000 street signs which appeared throughout the area in the 1990s). In 1997, concerned about the aesthetic impact that the encroaching suburbs of Amarillo were having on Cadillac Ranch, Mr. Marsh had the sculpture relocated to another portion of his property, two miles further outside of town.