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

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

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

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

An ancient knight and a symbol of the city's freedom.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

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

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.