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Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

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

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

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

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

This is one really big nut.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

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

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

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."