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

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

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

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

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

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

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

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

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

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

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

At a site that has witnessed many significant events, according to the fictional Kcymaerxthaere, it is best known as the place of lunar discovery.