A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Is this statue at Naumberg Cathedral the fairest of them all?

One of Detroit’s oldest blues clubs stands in defiance of the passage of time and the city’s shifting fortunes.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

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

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

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

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.