This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

An unusually European Pueblo church is actually the oldest Native American congregation in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

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

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.