A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

A land of debatable treasure.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

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

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

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