This is the perfect spot for you if you're looking for an offbeat tourist destination, with a hilariously spiteful origin story while driving through West Texas: Slug Bug Ranch.
I do greatly suspect that this information is pure fabrication; a mere attempt at some form of online notoriety, that quite honestly, should have been left on Reddit.
Amarillo is not usually the place that first comes to mind when you think about being ahead of the game. Not especially when it comes to touristy kinds of places. Yes, we have the Cadillac Ranch.
Oh, Amarillo you have so much that is just strange. Most of it is thanks to the eccentric Stanley Marsh 3. If you see something weird around Amarillo it was probably something that he came up with. Seriously it is.
You probably drive by these all the time. Heck, you may not have even noticed them. They are like the Cadillac Ranch. You could miss it all off the highway unless you know they are there or looking for them.
Long story short, some people at TxDOT saw my sarcastic piece about how Cadillac Ranch could be updated with traffic cones. They got the joke, and acted on it.