A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

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

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.