An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

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

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

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

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

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

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