A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

This is one really big nut.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

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.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

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