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

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

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

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

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

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

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.

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

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

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

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

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

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

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.