This statue is an ode to an iconic roadside advertisement popularized during the 1970s.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

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

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.