Long abandoned and barely remembered, the ghost towns of Siberia and Bagdad once thrived along America’s Mother Road. Today, they stand as quiet echoes of Route 66’s golden age and sudden decline.

Once lively desert stops along the legendary Route 66, Siberia and Bagdad now sit silent—erased by time and bypassed by progress. These ghost towns tell the story of the road’s rise and the ...

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It's very nearly a ghost town today ... the Texas panhandle was one of many small towns whose commercial growth depended on the opening of Route 66, almost simultaneous to the discovery of ...

Roy’s Motel and Café In the ghost town of Amboy, Calif., Roy’s Motel and Café rises from the Mojave Desert. Once a bustling stop on Route 66 ... and dusty desert towns, the Mother Road ...

It came at a cost: I-40 bypassed dozens of Route 66 towns, draining them of traffic and relevance. Many faded away into ghost towns—but Williams was an exception. Williams was the last town on ...

As you roll past ghost towns, volcanic cinder cones and plenty of open sky, it’s easy to see why early Route 66 travelers carefully timed this stretch to avoid the worst of the desert heat.