The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.