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Nuclear Cruise Missile in a Church Parking Lot

Pikeville, NC

A decommissioned TM-61C Matador cruise missile stands outside a church on land formerly associated with a private airstrip and restaurant. The weapon type was designed to carry a nuclear warhead, making the forty-foot missile an unusually ominous piece of roadside advertising history.

Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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