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

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Former hotel turned into haunted playground.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.