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The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

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

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

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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

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.

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.

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.

Part of a secret 1970s nuclear defense program is now open to the public.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

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

This nearly invisible wire transforms much of the city into one big, symbolic home on the holy day.