America's Roadside Miracles

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America's Roadside Miracles

A tour of America's lesser-known holy destinations

Photographs by Timothy K. Beal

Religion professor Timothy K. Beal's new book, "Roadside Religion," uncovers some of America's most unusual and fascinating religious landmarks. Click through the photo gallery below to explore some of these scenes--from a rebuilding of Noah's Ark in Frostburg, Md. to the World's Largest Ten Commandments in Murphy, N.C. Happy trails!

All photographs by Timothy K. Beal. Reproduced with permission of Beacon Press. Timothy K. Beal is Florence Harkness Professor of Religion and director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His books include 'Religion and Its Monsters' and 'The Book of Hiding.'

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