This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.