Palm Springs, California
Sonny Bono Statue
A bust of the entertainer and politician sits in an alcove at the Palm Springs Airport.
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Palm Springs, California
A bust of the entertainer and politician sits in an alcove at the Palm Springs Airport.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
In Oklahoma City's Bricktown, there's a street that don't use jelly.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Once the smallest park in the national system.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.
Lakeside, Colorado
One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.
San Diego, California
The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.
San Diego, California
The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.
San Diego, California
Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.
San Diego, California
Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.
Grapevine, Texas
A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
Orlando, Florida
A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.
Denver, Colorado
A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.
Aline, Oklahoma
The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.
McLean, Texas
This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.
Wichita, Kansas
The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.