Fodor's Expert Review Arizona Route 66 Museum

Sharing space with the visitor center, this museum provides a nostalgic look at the evolution of the famous route that started as a footpath followed by prehistoric Native Americans and evolved into a length of pavement that reached from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California. The Route 66 Electric Vehicle Museum, a semipermanent display inside the museum, features electric vehicles on loan from the Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation. Memory Lane, also inside the Powerhouse building where the museum is housed, is a store crammed with kitschy souvenirs.