World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

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

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The first steel dam in the world and the only one still functional in the United States.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A unique collection of artistic rides

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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