A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.