A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

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

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

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.