Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

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

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

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

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

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

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

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

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

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

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