Visible from miles around, the Volkswagen Beetle perched on top of an 80-foot brick smokestack at Bill Luck's Volkswagen has been Amsterdam's most idiosyncratic landmark since 1981. The car was hoisted up by a borrowed crane as a piece of advertising for the family-run garage below, and was never taken down.
It is on the western edge of town along Route 5. You can park at the garage for a closer look; the Beetle's continued presence after more than four decades is half the point. A staple of upstate "weird America" road-trip checklists.