This history is explored in the free on ... stop along Route 66. Plan your visit for a Saturday night to take a ghost tour through this once-abandoned town. What's a road trip without some snacks?

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Since then, Wright says, it has lived many lives: a military road during World War II, and by the 1950s, a popular east-west path for leisure travelers. Wright's first trip along Route 66 was in 2016.