A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

A tribute to one of the last great singing cowboys.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

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

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

This 1863 adobe building is home to one of the oldest operating saloons in the Southwest.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

This Old West hotel, the longest in continuous operation in the state of Arizona, is claimed to be haunted.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

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

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

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

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

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.