This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

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

This museum shaped like an inflating balloon celebrates the sport’s buoyant achievements.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The clothes-washing king doubles as a community center with some unusual features, including an aviary filled with finches.

A chance to follow in the footsteps of the word's most legendary animator.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

The magic's in the hole!

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

The final resting place for an internet icon.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.