Cars

The cone-shaped motel units where Sally puts Lightning up for the night — the film's cozy cones echo these teepee cabins along Arizona 66.

Wigwam Motel

as Cozy Cone Motel

Sally Carrera runs the Cozy Cone Motel — cone-shaped cabins with neon that glows when Radiator Springs wakes up again.

Roy's Motel & Café

as Cozy Cone Motel

Lightning McQueen races cross-country toward California on the old highway — the open plains and roadside art of the Texas Panhandle are the kind of landscape he blasts past.

Cadillac Ranch

as Route 66

Flo serves the racers at her chrome-and-neon V8 diner — the kind of streamlined Texas roadhouse the Pixar team sketched all along the Mother Road.

U-Drop Inn

as Flo's V8 Cafe

Tow Mater lives in a scrapyard on the edge of Carburetor County — the kind of sun-baked yard of old trucks and signs you still find along this lonely stretch of 66.

Hackberry General Store

as Radiator Springs

Radiator Springs lights up at night — motel neon and diner signs along the main drag, the same glow you get from courts like this on the New Mexico stretch of 66.

Blue Swallow Motel

as Radiator Springs

Lightning McQueen is stranded on the forgotten two-lane highway through Radiator Springs — the neon, the single traffic light, and the row of shuttered storefronts that come back to life.

Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In

as Radiator Springs

Sally shows Lightning where Radiator Springs once sat on Route 66 before Interstate 40 bypassed the town — the geography mirrors this real bend of Arizona highway.

Peach Springs Trading Post

as Radiator Springs

The "End of the Trail" Route 66 sign on the pier marks the highway's western end — Lightning McQueen's world of cross-country racing runs from small towns like Radiator Springs to the California coast.

Santa Monica Pier

as California

Sally Carrera left the fast life on the interstate for Radiator Springs — the film's story of a town bypassed by the superhighway echoes stops like this grand railroad hotel.

La Posada Hotel

as Radiator Springs

McQueen learns to take the long way — the film's message to get off the interstate and notice small towns like this one on Arizona 66.

Standin' on the Corner Park

as Route 66

Mater is Radiator Springs' rusty tow truck — good-hearted, backwards-driving, and loyal. The boom truck parked here is the one the filmmakers studied for his design.

Cars on the Route

as Radiator Springs