"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

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

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

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

An urban laboratory.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

The author of Alice in Wonderland spent his final years at this whimsical Victorian home.

William Smith's iconic "map that changed the world" is hidden behind a curtain in the Geological Society building.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.