Wigwam Motel (Wigwam Village #6)

Fifteen teepee-shaped rooms line Holbrook's stretch of Route 66, and people still sleep in them. The Wigwam Motel is one of only three survivors of a roadside idea that began in Kentucky.

The National Park Service says Frank Redford opened a teepee-style service station in Horse Cave, Kentucky, in 1933, then built a larger Wigwam Village in Cave City, patented his design by 1937 and sold plans to a handful of other entrepreneurs. Of the seven villages built, only three remain: Cave City, Holbrook (Village No. 6) and Rialto/San Bernardino, California. The Park Service adds that Redford preferred the word wigwam to teepee, and calls the misnomer indicative of the stereotyping of American Indian tribal culture at the time.