Texola Ghost Town

    Texola Ghost Town Texola is a living Ghost Town meaning there are still people living there even though the town is mostly abandoned.  Texola sits on the border of Texas and Oklahoma on old Route 66.  There are many abandoned buildings including a 1930 Magnolia Gas Station and

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Meteor Crater

    Meteor Crater Fifty thousand year ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky. It struck the Earth in what is now northern Arizona, exploding with the force of 2 1/2 million tons of TNT, or about 150 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed

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Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch

    Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch Elmer Long’s Bottle Tree Ranch is a landmark on Route 66 located near Oro Grande California in the Mojave Desert.  Elmer grew up in California and accompanied his father on trips to the desert where they collected  most anything they could find, including

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Soulsby Service Station Rt 66

    Soulsby Service Station Rt 66 The Soulsby Service Station is a historic service station in Mount Olive, Illinois. The station is located along historic U.S. Route 66 and is the oldest usable service station on the highway in Illinois. The Soulsby Station is an excellent example of a

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Glenrio Ghost Town

  Glenrio Ghost Town During the 1940s and 1950s, Glenrio sat very much alone in the open scrub desert of the high plains straddling the Texas-New Mexico border. Amarillo was 73 miles to the east and Tucumcari 41 miles west. Travelers driving Route 66 across the desert could see a

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Spencer Ghost Town

  Spencer Ghost Town Spencer is a small unincorporated crossroads in eastern Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. It lies along former U.S. Route 66 (now a county road) approximately six miles  west of Halltown.  A post office called Spencer was established in 1868, and remained in operation until 1907. The

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Red Oak II Missoura

  Red Oak II Red Oak II is the creation of artist Lowell Davis, who’s family had pioneered the town of Red Oak. After success as an artist, he started moving his old home town to his farm 32 miles away creating Red Oak II. Lowell now lives in what

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