Death Valley Road Trip

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This is one really big nut.

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

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

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

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

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

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

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

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

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

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

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.