The wheel dates back more than 6,000 years when artisans stuck wooden discs on top of shafts and spun them around, making fancy clay pots and all sorts of modern-day museum fodder. Mesopotamians later ...

The wheel dates back to around 4000 B.C when artisans used them for spinning pottery. Later, the Mesopotamians took two discs, stuck one on each end of a hunk of wood and made the world's first axle.

Today, everybody's got custom wheels. The guy driving the Escalade to work runs 24s with paper-thin sidewalls and those ridiculous spinner wheels. Even the pizza-delivery kid's got 18s on his Honda.

Wheels aren't just an extension of your car, they're a reflection of its personality too. In the sneaker world, a “sneakerhead” is a connoisseur of expensive, low-production shoes made by giants like ...