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

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.