Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

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

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.