A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

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.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The magic's in the hole!

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.