A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The magic's in the hole!

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

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

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.