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

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.