Hachita, New Mexico
St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Mission Church
This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.
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Hachita, New Mexico
This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
Flagstaff, Arizona
Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Flagstaff, Arizona
A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.
Clarkdale, Arizona
An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.
Bisbee, Arizona
Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.
Vail, Arizona
Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.
Yuma, Arizona
Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.
Quartzsite, Arizona
The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.
Quartzsite, Arizona
A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.
Quartzsite, Arizona
This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.
Omaha, Nebraska
An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Bastrop, Texas
The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Schulenburg, Texas
Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.
Houston, Texas
A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.
Waxahachie, Texas
It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.