Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

This marker identifies the location where three states converge.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

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

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

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

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

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

The remnants of a creative early method of wildfire prevention.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.