This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

A memorial to the firefighters who died in an industrial disaster is housed in a small public park.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An urban laboratory.

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

Once a year, at exactly 11:11 a.m., this monument comes to life.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.