Places Edited by 80schic84

A touching tribute to a local hero who made sure his neighborhood stayed clean.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

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

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

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

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.