A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

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

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

This is one really big nut.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An art museum inside an active factory.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.