Pagosa Springs, Colorado
The Mother Spring
No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.
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Pagosa Springs, Colorado
No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.
Creede, Colorado
Take a self-guided tour through one of Colorado's most elevated mining districts.
Payson, Arizona
A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.
Laughlin, Nevada
The gambling entrepreneur who built a city was also an avid collector of classic cars.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.
Holbrook, Arizona
One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.
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
Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.
Carbondale, Colorado
Once owned by the largest employer in Colorado, these ovens have been abandoned for over a century.
Cornville, Arizona
Outsider Art Community.
Lake City, Colorado
The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.
Cottonwood, Arizona
Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.
Mount Charleston, Nevada
A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
Indian Springs, Nevada
This hidden, women-built-and-operated Nevada temple on Shoshone Native American land is dedicated to the Egyptian lion goddess Sekhmet among other goddesses.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.
Boulder City, Nevada
A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.
Kingman, Arizona
A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.
Boulder City, Nevada
These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Leupp, Arizona
The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.
Nevada
A remarkably well-preserved stage stop from the late 19th century in a remote part of Nevada.