This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Nothing to see here.

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

An ambitious developer built what was once the world's tallest fountain in a Phoenix suburb.

Giant jars and pots littered alongside an Arizona freeway

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

Babe Ruth and others planted saplings for a 1930s tourism campaign. The saplings grew as the area faded.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.