At this research institute, the chile is king.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

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

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

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

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

This is one really big nut.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

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.

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

A steep and winding road in the Yorkshire Dales passes by these deep natural potholes.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

A face emerges from the landscape when seen from the air.

A local prank turned town icon.