The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

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

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.