Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

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

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.