The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The classic Atari game's iconic aliens have invaded downtown San Diego.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

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

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

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

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.