This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

Because there's no place like home.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.