Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

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

This is one really big nut.

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

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

The world's largest rotating world.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.