Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

Nebraska’s longest-running summer theater is a musical tribute to cowboy culture.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.

These experimental weapons brought World War II to Nebraska as well as 26 other U.S. states.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

More than 150 working bells from churches and one-room-schoolhouses across the Great Plains are assembled in one man's yard.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

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

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

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