Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

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

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

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

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

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.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.