London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

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

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

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

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

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

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

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.