Middlegate, nevada, what wacky roadside attraction can you find

The correct answer is - Shoe Tree.

In Middlegate, Nevada, alongside the so called ''loneliest road in America'', there's a cottonwood tree that has shoes all over its branches. As multiple other places in America where trees are ''ornamented'' with different types of objects, this tree has its own story behind it.

A man and a women had an argument. The women said that she would leave, and the man through her shoes on the tree and told her that she will have to go barefoot. He went into a bar, and got convinced by the bartender to reconcile with his wife, and he returned, and they did reconciled. When they a child few years after, they came back and threw the child's shoes on the tree where they reconciled.

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