Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.