These boots are made for selfies.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

The handsome statue is a tribute to the post riders who traversed 52 miles of tough Arizona terrain.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

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

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

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

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.