A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

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

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

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

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

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

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.