This is one really big nut.

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

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

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

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

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

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

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.

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

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

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."

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.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.