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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

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

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

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

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

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

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.