The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found at a weekend swap meet.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

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

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

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

This is one really big nut.

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

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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