The giant roadside thermometer between Las Vegas and Los Angeles — a towering sight for legions of highway drivers — is for sale.

A spread of real estate in Baker, California, along Interstate 15 roughly 90 miles southwest of the Las Vegas Strip, recently went on the market for $1.85 million, listing sites show.

The 4.3-acre tract includes the iconic 134-foot thermometer — billed as the world’s tallest — and an adjacent retail building that’s home to a souvenir shop called Temp 134.

The listing says the landmark is known worldwide and is “at its core, 134 feet of vertical advertising space.”

The towering temperature reader on Baker Boulevard calls Baker the gateway to Death Valley — where, according to the National Park Service, the world’s highest air temperature was ever recorded in the summer of 1913, at 134 degrees.

Listing broker Baron Castillo, owner of real estate firm Apartment Building Investments, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday that the thermometer has been refurbished and is “up and running better than ever now.”

He also figures the buyer will be from Las Vegas, as masses of tourists and others regularly drive between Southern Nevada and Southern California on I-15, and the giant thermometer is hard to miss.

Castillo, who noted the land for sale includes an EV charging station, said a buyer could add digital signage on the thermometer to flash their logo.

They could also convert the retail shop into, say, a restaurant, cafe or microbrewery, giving travelers a place to hang out while their cars recharge, he said.

“That would be the best use for it, I believe,” he said.

Baker, an unincorporated town in San Bernardino County, is a tiny outpost in the desert.

It spans just 2.7 square miles and had only 442 residents as of 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Its famous roadside attraction was built in 1991, but before it was officially lit, high winds knocked it over, and it was rebuilt “to be even stronger and resistant” to powerful gusts, according to the World’s Tallest Thermometer website.

Ultimately, the thermometer was turned on in 1992, the website says.

Of course, the giant thermometer isn’t the only notable landmark along I-15 between Las Vegas and L.A.

There is also the oddly spelled Zzyzx Road sign, located some 95 miles southwest of the Strip, and the graffiti-covered former waterpark roughly 130 miles from Las Vegas’ famed casino corridor.

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