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

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

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

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

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Where old school Polish Chicago and young hipster Chicago live side by side.

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

During segregation, this Orlando hotel hosted performers like Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Now it's a museum dedicated to preserving local Black history.