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

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

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

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.