Mountainair, New Mexico
Salinas Pueblo Missions
The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.
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Mountainair, New Mexico
The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.
Chinle, Arizona
Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.
Winslow, Arizona
This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.
Los Angeles, California
Sit at the "Disney table,” where Walt and his team of "imagineers" once dined on the regular.
Los Angeles, California
This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.
Los Angeles, California
The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.
Los Angeles, California
Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.
Winslow, Arizona
This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Holbrook, Arizona
This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.
Richland, Washington
Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.
Lakeview, Oregon
Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.
Bend, Oregon
The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.
La Pine, Oregon
A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.
La Pine, Oregon
Atop an active stratovolcano, two lakes separated by a narrow strip of land.
Tecopa, California
This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.
Carson City, Nevada
Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.