The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

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

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

The lobby of this hotel near the U.S.-Mexico border features a stained-glass mural that measures 42 feet long and 6 feet tall.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.