Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

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

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

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

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

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

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

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

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.