Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

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

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

A land of debatable treasure.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.