Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This is one really big nut.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

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