The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

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

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

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.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.