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An urban laboratory.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.