The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

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

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

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

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

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

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

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

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

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

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

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.