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If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

The last Americana on Route 66.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.