Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

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

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

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

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

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

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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.