The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Previously a hot spring, this park remains a site of unique history, wildlife, and geology.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

Operational for less than a year, this mill produced more than 11,000 tons of chrome concentrate in its short lifespan.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.