A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

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.

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

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

A museum dedicated to the famous Mexican illustrator's iconic calaveras.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

The author of Frankenstein is buried here, along with her parents and the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The raised stones in the middle of this road through Culross are relics of a 17th-century class divide.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.