Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

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

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

A unique collection of Western and Japanese-style graves.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.

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

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.