Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.