This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

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

This little gem of a museum is a hidden jewel filled with prehistoric treasures.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

This replica small town lets visitors take a stroll through the story of progress in the U.S. via thousands of Americana artifacts.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.