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An unusual slot canyon in the Aztec/Navajo Sandstone has a cross-section like an inverted old-fashioned keyhole.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Under the right conditions, rocks will move across this dry lakebed, leaving trails behind them.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

A professional special effects makeup artist’s collection of horror creatures and one-of-a-kind recreations on display in downtown Boulder City.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Shop for superb tortillas at this homage to the ancient art of nixtamalization.

This simple rock stands as a memorial of the major student protests of 1968.

One of the best examples of Modernist religious architecture in Mexico City.

Outside a market, beautiful murals pay tribute to fruit sellers and farmers, as well as a few legendary artists.

This museum houses two of Mexico's most impressive Aztec monoliths.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

The ruins of an ancient temple to the Aztec wind god discovered in the middle of a metro station.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

Founded by a Basque immigrant, Mexico City's oldest bakery has a history dating back to 1870.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

The ruins of the bathhouse used by the ill-fated last Aztec emperor still lie in Chapultepec Park.

By night, this auto repair shop turns into a taquería serving up some of the city's finest al pastor tacos.

Beneath the most controversial monument in Mexico City is a cultural center that exhibits only digital art.