A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.

This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.

The permanent home of Elektro, the celebrity automaton of the 1939 World's Fair.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

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

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

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

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

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

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

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

This is one really big nut.

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

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

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Outsider Art Community.

Rusting dinosaurs frolic at the entrance to this roadside "snake sanctuary."

An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.