Elk City, Oklahoma
National Route 66 Museum
An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."
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Elk City, Oklahoma
An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."
Jet, Oklahoma
This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.
Weatherford, Oklahoma
This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.
Kenton, Oklahoma
The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.
Atlanta, Georgia
This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Pagosa Springs, Colorado
No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Cortez, Colorado
A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.
Towaoc, Colorado
Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.
Durango, Colorado
A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.
Durango, Colorado
This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.
Shreveport, Louisiana
One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.
Lucedale, Mississippi
This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.
Mobile, Alabama
Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Dyess, Arkansas
The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.
St. Louis, Missouri
A chessmaster's dream destination.
Granite City, Illinois
A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.
Lucas, Kansas
Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.