Don't blink or you'll miss it.

What is the Thing?

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This functional solar system model was inspired by the famous Eisinga Planetarium.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.