Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Arguing within this idyllic, circular volcanic lake is forbidden.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

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