Baker, California
World's Largest Thermometer
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
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Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
Needles, California
An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.
Yucca, Arizona
This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
Ehrenberg, Arizona
The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.
Quartzsite, Arizona
This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Tucson, Arizona
Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.
Mesa, Arizona
These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
New Harmony, Indiana
This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.
Phoenix, Arizona
The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.
Phoenix, Arizona
A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.
Chandler, Arizona
Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.
Chandler, Arizona
A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.
Lisbon, Portugal
A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.
Amado, Arizona
This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.
El Paso, Texas
A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.