This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

A monument commemorating how a frontier town got its unusual name.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

Florence's historic adobe county courthouse was turned into a historic site that honors one of Arizona's most prominent political leaders.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

The three biggest silent film stars once shot iconic scenes here.

A picturesque example of brute-force engineering conquering nature.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.