Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

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

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

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

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.