El Paso, Texas
Lhakhang Cultural Exhibit
A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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El Paso, Texas
Sunland Park Dinosaur Tracks
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
El Paso, Texas
Casa de Azucar
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Lechuguilla Cave
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Culberson County, Texas
Guadalupe Peak
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
La Equis (The X)
A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.
El Paso, Texas
John Wesley Hardin's Grave
A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.
El Paso, Texas
Chamizal National Memorial
This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.
Sonora, Texas
Caverns of Sonora
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
San Angelo, Texas
Lower Ghost Camp
A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.
San Angelo, Texas
International Water Lily Garden
An oasis of lilies cultivated by the "Indiana Jones of Water Lilies."
Culberson County, Texas
McKittrick Canyon
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Comstock, Texas
Seminole Canyon
Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Mariscal Mine
An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.
Terlingua, Texas
Lajitas Ghost Town
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Balmorhea, Texas
Balmorhea State Park Pool
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Permanently Closed
Redford, Texas
Contrabando
An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.
Hondo, Texas
Ruins of St Dominic's Catholic Church
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
Corsicana, Texas
The Grave of Rope Walker
A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."
Fort Worth, Texas
Lee Harvey Oswald's Grave
Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.
Zavalla, Texas
Sturrock Cemetery
A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.
San Antonio, Texas
Memorial Park at UT Health Science Center
The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.
Shrewsbury, New Jersey
Christ Church Shrewsbury
One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.
