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

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

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

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.