One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.

This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Incredible sculptures inspired by obscure passages from the Bible.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A replica that won't float away.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.