The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

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

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

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

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

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

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

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

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.