This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.

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

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

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

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.