Albuquerque, New Mexico
Red Planet Books & Comics
The only Native American comic shop in the world.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
The only Native American comic shop in the world.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Lindrith, New Mexico
A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.
Mountainair, New Mexico
The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
San Antonio, Texas
One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.
Sahuarita, Arizona
One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Barstow, California
Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.
Cockeysville, Maryland
Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Coconino County, Arizona
The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.
Lonaconing, Maryland
The first blast furnace in the United States that used coal and coke fuel instead of charcoal to make pig iron.
Los Angeles, California
A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.
Los Angeles, California
This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.
Garretson, South Dakota
These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.
Burnsville, North Carolina
A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Elberta, Utah
This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.
Hibbing, Minnesota
Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.
Anacortes, Washington
On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.