Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

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

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

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

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

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

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.