The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

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

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A unique collection of artistic rides

This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.