Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

This road earned its macabre nickname after hundreds of Iraqi troops died along it in 1991.

The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq until ISIS blew it up twice and then drove over it with bulldozers.

An ancient fortified mound raised over the millennia from settlements built one on top of the other.

A bloody history is captured in this former prison turned museum.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

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

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

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

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

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

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

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.