Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

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

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

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."

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

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

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

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This monument marks the point where Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri intersect.

This bird statue was created to mark the site of a radio transmitter.

A meticulously restored Wichita home designed by the most renowned American architect of the 20th century.

Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

This cave column thousands of feet below the earth’s surface is rightly named for one of the most colorful park rangers in history.

It is intended to take one back to a stripped-down simplicity, to spend extended time both inside and out, and absorb the natural drama of the Upper Rio Grande Valley.