Carhenge

Jim Reinders had lived in England and studied Stonehenge, and when the family gathered in 1987 for a memorial to his father they built this on the farm where he had lived - thirty-nine vehicles, some buried boot-down in the ground as uprights, others welded across the top as lintels, the whole thing to the proportions of the original and spray-painted grey. The county initially classed it as a junkyard and tried to have it removed; local support won and it became a tourist site instead. Additional sculptures made from car parts stand in the field around it. It sits in open prairie with nothing else in view, and it was directly in the path of totality for the 2017 solar eclipse.

What you actually see

• Thirty-nine cars - uprights buried, lintels welded across.
• Stonehenge proportions - copied deliberately, painted grey.
• Car-part sculptures around it - added in the field since.
• Open prairie in every direction - nothing else in sight.

When to go

April to October; the site is open at all hours. An hour.

Honest expectations

It is one thing in a field - the visit is short. There is no shelter. Winter wind on the plains is severe. It is a long drive from anywhere.

Nearby

Alliance is south; Scotts Bluff National Monument is south-west.