From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

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

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

The first of the iconic American roadside attractions lives on as a college mascot.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

Commercial aircraft storage facility, where you can see a TWA 747.

A surprising collection of bronze faces beneath a bridge in Loveland.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

A James Turrell Skyspace located in the mountains of Colorado.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

During World War II this was the site of an "honor camp" used as a prison for draft dodgers, Native American conscientious objectors, and Japanese-Americans—including a man who brought his case against the camp to the Supreme Court.

Browse an impressive collection of passenger and military aircraft dating back to World War II.