The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

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

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

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

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

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

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The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.