A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

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

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

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

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.