This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

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

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

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

An important piece of history from mankind's journey to the moon sits in the lobby of a government science lab.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.