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

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

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

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

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

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

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

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.