The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

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

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

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

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

The smallest country in the world.