Christmas Road Trip

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

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.