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

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

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

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

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

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

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

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.