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

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

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

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

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.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.