Giganticus Headicus is a fourteen-foot green concrete head in the style of a tiki carving, half-buried in the desert beside Route 66 at Antares, northeast of Kingman. The sculptor Gregg Arnold, formerly of New Jersey, built it in 2004 from metal, wood, chicken wire, styrofoam and cement, outside what had been the Kozy Corner Trailer Court and the Ranchero Motel. The property around it has since become Antares Point, a gift shop and sculpture yard. In 2016 Grand Canyon Caverns announced it would lease the site for a Route 66 visitors center and gave up the lease in 2019; during the 2020 shutdowns Arnold cleaned up the property and remodeled its main A-frame building himself. Antares Point held a soft opening at Easter in 2021 and a grand opening that November, when Arnold unveiled a second giant: the Guardian of Route 66, a sixteen-foot figure of a woman waving the American flag and holding up a Route 66 shield, revealed to a crowd of more than a hundred alongside a car show that raised money for a local feral cat charity.
The yard has smaller jokes as well. Roadside America has recorded giant robotic ants crawling up the outside of the A-frame, a windmill whose blades are 1950s furniture, a plywood sign shaped like a rocket ship, and a pit of baby rattlers that turn out to be rattles for babies. The shop sells miniature copies of the head.
Getting there
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