A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

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

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.