This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

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

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

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

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

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.