Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A land of debatable treasure.

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

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

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

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.

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.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

This is one really big nut.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.