Route 66 Chicago to Santa Monica

This lagomorph-obsessed Route 66 emporium is home to a giant jackrabbit that sits in a bunny graveyard.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

This Wild West ghost town on Route 66 is filled with wild burros.

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

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

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

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."

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

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

Today this bizarre rooftop phone booth seems like a piece of kitsch but it was once used to spot disastrous storms.

This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

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

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

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

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

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

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

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

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.