This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

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

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

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

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

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

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

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

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.