Here is a sampling of what you can expect along (or very near) Historic Route 11:

Louisiana:  New Orleans, world’s longest continuous concrete bridge (when completed in 1928), the “first American saint” (hint:  he was a Native American), swamps, an alligator in a traffic circle, and home of the Cajun Sasquatch

Mississippi:  John Stennis Space Center and rocket engine firings, the “Pine Belt”, site of last bare knuckle prize fight in America, Free State of Jones, location of HGTV series “Home Town”, birthplace of Jimmie Rodgers (“Father of Country Music”)

Alabama:  White Cliffs of Epes (layers of similar chalk as in Dover England), antebellum homes, Black Warrior River (named for nearly seven feet tall Chief Tuskaloosa), Moundsville (called “The Big Apple of the 14th Century” by National Geographic), a meteorite that struck a woman’s head, Hitler’s typewriter and MLK Jr’s jail cell door, the “Heaviest Corner on Earth”, the oldest surviving baseball park in the country, the world’s largest motorcycle museum, a 56 foot statue of Vulcan, the oldest continuously inhabited city in America, site of the first hydroelectric dam that powered a city, waterfalls, the “Trail of Tears”, the former “Sock Capital of the World”, home of a red-headed Native American Chief and home of the inventor of the Cherokee written language, statues of the band members of “Alabama” and multiple vintage movie theaters.

Georgia:  The “Independent State of Dade”, Rock City

Tennessee:  home of “Moon Pies”, Krystal hamburgers, Mountain Dew, and Little Debbie snacks, an underground lake and underground waterfall, caverns,  the steepest incline railway in the world, the world’s fastest wrecker, the last capitol of the Cherokee nation before the Trail of Tears, the home of the “good boy” who cast the deciding vote to ratify the 19th Amendment, world’s largest basketball, homes of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, world’s fastest dirt track, home of the country’s first Abolitionist newspaper, the State of Franklin, Melungeon history, a town with only one side, working carousels, and a city in two states.

Virginia:  “America’s Coolest Hometown”, home of Dr. Pepper (the man, and possibly the drink), home of “the first woman President”, the world’s smallest church, location of Virginia’s first duel with rifles (it didn’t end well), the “Star City of the South”, Muffler Men, birthplace of the first Black professional football player, a historic canal to the coast, the Natural Bridge, cemetery where Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are buried, multiple drive-in theaters, lavender fields, stone railroad bridge built in 1874, replica of Shakespeare’s theater, home of (one of) the oldest continuously held sporting events in the US (not what you think), multiple cave systems, location of the final Confederate triumph of the Civil War, the Route 11 Potato Chip factory, duck pin bowling, the first CCC camp, one of the oldest towns west of the Blue Ridge Mountains (founded in 1752), home of the “Fighting Parson” of the Continental Army, one of the oldest continuously operated inns in the country (from 1797), Dinosaur Land, the world’s largest apple, and George Washington’s office

West Virginia:  dual water wheel grist mill from 1738, log cabins built before 1810, the Martinsburg Roundhouse and a large railroad hub,  Van Metre Ford Stone Bridge built in 1832, home of Confederate spy Belle Boyd, and a puppet theater

Maryland:  Chesapeake and Ohio Canal built in 1831, the Conococheague Aqueduct, a large railroad hub converging on the “Hub City”, a Heavy Metal playground, caverns, and a road that passes UNDER an airport runway

Pennsylvania:  the Mason-Dixon line, the only major northern community burned down by Confederate forces, a Lincoln Highway concrete marker, burial place of Molly Pitcher, home of the US Army War College, Spring Carlisle (one of the world’s largest automotive flea markets), remnants of the former Pennsylvania Canal System, location of the northernmost battle of the Civil War, former largest railroad freight yard in the world, the longest stone masonry arch railroad bridge in the world, a replica Statue of Liberty, a town through which runs the Appalachian Trail, the last wooden double stern-wheel paddleboat operating in the US, multiple bridges over 100 years old, covered bridges, last home of Joseph Priestley, home of Wise Potato Chips, location of the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster, an annual Pirogie festival, Queen Esther’s bloody rock monument, the “Electric City”, the Penn Paper Tower and Dwight Schrute mural, and the world’s largest reinforced concrete railroad bridge (and in 1915 when completed, the world’s largest concrete structure)

New York:  the “Parlor City”, location of the origin of IBM and the flight simulator, original Dick’s Sporting Goods store, historic carousels, bronze statue of Rod Serling, the Chenango Canal, the 1914 radio tower of Guglielmo Marconi, homes of the Whitney and Franklin Automotive Companies, the Central New York Military Tract, an octagon-shaped house, apple orchards, Onondaga Nation, the “Salt City”, a seven foot tin man, a “green over red” traffic light, a 24 second shot clock monument, location of the first Plank Road in the US, the “Salmon Fishing Capital of New York”, source of the 1400 pound “Big Cheese” made for Andrew Jackson, the “Garland City”, home to the “Little Tree” car fresheners, oldest continuously operating enclosed mall in the US, birthplace of FW Woolworth Five and Dime stores, a cider mill built in 1801, Fort Drum, the “Marble Village”, world’s largest roll of Lifesavers candy, the “Potty Gardens” protest site, “Fort Blunder” and the Canadian border