A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Prayers and messages of hope decorate the ceramic tiles of this pavilion.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

This chilly Canadian hotel has a four-month lifespan due to the unusual material it's made of.

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

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

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

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

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

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

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.