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

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

This is one really big nut.

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

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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

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

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

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

Destructive children, start your engines.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.