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A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An early 20th-century jail not far from the infamous Tombstone, Arizona.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

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

This fireplace-turned-monument pays tribute to the assassinated U.S. president.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

The first Protestant church in Arizona and only Gothic Revival style adobe church in the world.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.