This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

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

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

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

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

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

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

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

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