These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

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

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.