ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — Many North County residents are familiar with the Joor Muffler Man, who stands about 20-feet tall at Juniper Street and East Valley Parkway. This piece of roadside kitsch has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joel Baker is a giant hunter. He travels across the country in search of towering sentinels that watch over small businesses. It's ...

Sure, the Porsche Experience Center, opening in LA in a little over a year, will feature a variety of exciting track configurations from road courses to a drag strip-looking thing, as well as varying ...

Are you really road-tripping if you’ve never pulled off the road to take a selfie with a 20-foot-tall fiberglass giant? Muffler Men Statues are one of America’s quirkiest, most beloved roadside ...

ESCONDIDOESCONDIDO — The national program “Sunday Morning” on CBS broadcast a piece last Sunday on the restoration of giant “Muffler Men,” those roadside figures of advertising kitsch that appear in ...

First erected in the early 1960s as an advertising gimmick, these giants are rising again thanks to preservationists, kitsch aficionados and savvy entrepreneurs.

A love for roadside attractions helped Greg Holmes get a big head - and he's proud of it. It takes two arms stretched wide to carry and is taller than the 5-foot-6 Holmes when he's kneeling. Holmes ...

He survived Hurricane Katrina and numerous tropical torments large and small. But Isaac proved too much for Metairie’s Big Man statue, knocking him from the perch he’s occupied for more than 35 years ...