This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

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

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

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