This image provided by the American Folk Art Museum shows a Touring Car and Driver weather vane. Perched atop churches, barns, businesses, homes and seats of government for hundreds of years, weather vanes have taken the form of everything from farm animals to pets, storybook figures to race cars. They were invented for one important job: telling which way the wind was blowing. Gradually, they became appreciated as an art form. (Adam Reich/American Folk Art Museum via AP)