This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

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

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

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.

Outsider Art Community.

Inside this garden, visitors are offered a glimpse into how inhabitants of the region survived centuries ago.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.