All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

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

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

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

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

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

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.

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

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

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

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.