An idle pastime becomes a record holder in Boys Town, Nebraska.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

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

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

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

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

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.