The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

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

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.