This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.

The enormous diamond-shaped building packs a trove of academic and literary treasures into one futuristic space.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

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

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

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

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This historic stone barn is the former home of legendary cattleman Charles “Lonesome Dove” Goodnight.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.