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This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

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 century-old museum showcases New Mexico’s history through arts and crafts.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The largest single-building tribal cultural center in the U.S. is an expansive museum in Oklahoma City.

A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

You might want to bring a rain jacket to this travertine triple waterfall.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.