A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

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."

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

An urban laboratory.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.