This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

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

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

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

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

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

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

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

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Mine your own precious stones.