A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A Faraday Cage protects cars from a nearby high-power transmitter.

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

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.