Get your kicks on a Route 66 road trip—this 2,448-mile journey from Chicago to Santa Monica is a trip down memory lane of our nation's history.

Discover the Illinois town between St. Louis and Springfield on Route 66, where you can see retro buildings and experience classic Americana.

Route 66, the 2,448-mile link between Middle America's capital, Chicago, and the exotic West Coast, was commissioned 75 years ago this summer.

One of the last remaining original sections of historic Route 66 in Springfield has been purchased by Kum & Go. The curved road on the southeast corner of Glenstone Avenue and Kearney Street was ...

The "Birthplace of Route 66" takes its heritage seriously, even hosting an annual festival along the original route featuring a parade of musical performers and classic cars.

Route 66 was once considered an essential artery, its travelers a measure of America’s pulse. But by the mid-1980s, the road was deemed obsolete.

Kum & Go has changed its plans to pave over a stretch of the original Route 66, a company spokeswoman said. After hearing from fans of the historic road, the company will keep an original section ...

An original menu from Steiny’s, a roadhouse on the Missouri section of Route 66 that is now the Exhibit Hall for Missouris’ Route 66 State Park. (Photo by Andrew Evans, National Geographic Travel) ...