One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

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

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

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

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

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

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

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.