A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

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

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

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

The exit of the largest prisoner-of-war escape attempt on American soil during World War II.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

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

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

A 1930’s courtroom where John Dillinger and his gang went before a judge.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

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

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

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