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

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

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

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.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

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

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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 abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

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

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.