This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."