The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

This is one really big nut.

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

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

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.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

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

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Mexican food and folk art.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.