Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

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

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

A surprise blip of color and kitsch.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

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

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

This cave column thousands of feet below the earth’s surface is rightly named for one of the most colorful park rangers in history.

This cultural center showcases what may be the oldest ongoing community in all of North America.

A tribute to one of the last great singing cowboys.

All that's left of a former camp and settlement is a plaque commemorating the water source found at this remote site.

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

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