One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

This junkyard made over as a theme park is the "Most Alaskan place in Alaska."

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.