A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

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

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.

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

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

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

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

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

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

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

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.