When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

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

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

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

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

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

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

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

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

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

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

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.