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5. John Wayne’s Head
In 1979 a giant boulder that almost caused destruction on a California freeway was transformed into an indoor tribute to The Duke. A film producer whose home would have been in the path of the rock even wrote a screenplay about it titled The Rock. Hollywood soon lost interest, so an artist carved it into the likeness of John Wayne. Later the boulder was donated to it’s unlikely home at the Lubbock Christian University.