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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

Artifacts from a battleship sunk at Pearl Harbor displayed in the Capitol building of its namesake.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

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

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.