Las Cruces, New Mexico
World's Largest Chile Pepper Sculpture
This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.
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Las Cruces, New Mexico
This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Holbrook, Arizona
This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Holbrook, Arizona
A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Katy, Texas
255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.
Sanderson, Texas
Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."