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

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

This is one really big nut.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

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

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

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

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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