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

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

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

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

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

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.