One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

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

This is one really big nut.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Tucked away behind an unassuming set of shops is a must-see series of stunning murals.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.