A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

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

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

See six states, pickled freaks, rocks, and antiques.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

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

Cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.