Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

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

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

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

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

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

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

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

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

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

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

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.