The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

This gravity-defying rock formation is one of Big Bend’s natural wonders.

Whether or not you take the 72-ounce steak challenge, there’s plenty of history, fun and Texas-style food at this legendary stop along Route 66.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

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

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Examine the impact of the horse on Great Plains culture through exhibits on ranching, rodeo, and the Native American way of life.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"