The lynching and burial site of America's first train robbers.

A tribute to a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped in 1793 and escaped over two years later.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

Both funky and traditional, it's the oldest of its kind in Indiana.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

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

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

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.