This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

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

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

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

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

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.