This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.

Rusting dinosaurs frolic at the entrance to this roadside "snake sanctuary."

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

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

An urban laboratory.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

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

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of Navajo Nation.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.