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Cadillac Ranch
Ten Cadillacs buried nose-down in the Texas plains
Cadillac Ranch is a public-art installation in a field west of Amarillo, Texas, along old Route 66 — ten Cadillacs half-buried nose-down in a row, tail fins to the sky. Created in 1974 by the art collective Ant Farm at the behest of local millionaire Stanley Marsh 3, the cars trace the evolution of the Cadillac tail fin from 1949 to 1963. Visitors are encouraged to spray-paint them, so the ever-changing layers of graffiti are part of the work.