The Tumbleweed Christmas Tree

In Chandler, Arizona, a lack of traditional evergreen trees sparked a strange, decades-long holiday news tradition. In the 1950s, after a festive decorations mishap, city organizers gathered hundreds of desert tumbleweeds, stacked them into a 35-foot-tall pyramid, sprayed them with flame retardant and glitter, and lit them up with Christmas lights. The "Tumbleweed Christmas Tree" remains a major annual tourist attraction to this day, proving that one town's invasive weed is another town's holiday treasure.