"I did this all while you were watching TV."

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Iconic figures in concrete and steel in the High Plains of Texas.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

Located along historic Route 66, this former gas station has been restored and converted into a museum filled with vintage motorcycles.

A 50-foot-tall replica of the infamous lamp from 'A Christmas Story' illuminates this small town.

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

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

A small World War II museum housed in what was once the largest navigation school in the United States.