An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

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

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

An urban laboratory.

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

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

The stoutest tree in the world.

A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

In a busy Oaxaca market, a nearly century-old drinks stand still serves family recipes from giant clay pots.

One of the city's few vendors selling the Sierra Norte's ancestral beverage lies within a hidden farmers market.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.