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 popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

This is one really big nut.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

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

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

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

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

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

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

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

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

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Inside this magical collection, you can buy recipes cooked up by church ladies, motorcycle clubs, and clowns.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.