The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

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

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."

This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.