Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

This is one really big nut.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

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

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.