An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This small canyon park was once the main street of Silver City—until a flood washed it away.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

A unique gallery filled with art that is interactive, accessible, and generates a ripple effect of creativity

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

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

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

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

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

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

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."