This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

These falls, sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," still put on a good show at the right time of year.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A replica that won't float away.

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."