Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland which were used to align spy satellites.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This is one really big nut.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.