Apache Junction, Arizona
The Superstition Mountain Museum
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
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Apache Junction, Arizona
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
Bisbee, Arizona
Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.
Tombstone, Arizona
A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
Savannah, Georgia
Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Leslie, Georgia
Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.
St. Marys, Georgia
Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.
Deming, New Mexico
A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.
Paxton, Nebraska
What do a giraffe, an elephant, and reasonably priced steaks have in common? This roadside restaurant filled with exotic taxidermy.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
Flagstaff, Arizona
An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.
Leupp, Arizona
The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Holbrook, Arizona
This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
San Jon, New Mexico
The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.
South Bay, Florida
One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Phoenix, Arizona
Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Fort Worth, Texas
A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.
Denver, Colorado
This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.