The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

A rattlesnake museum showcasing over 30 species, in a century-old building that used to be the general store in this tiny West Texas town.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

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

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

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

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.