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

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

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

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

This is one really big nut.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

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

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

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

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

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

This Slovenian museum houses the country's largest collection of painted beehive panels.

This was the second largest mercury mine in the world and one of the oldest preserved mine complexes in Europe.

The costumes depict the Kurent, the star character of the annual Kurentovanje festival.

Slovenia's first mosque is a striking mix of Islamic and modernist architecture.