El Prado, New Mexico
Earthships
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
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El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.
Monticello, Florida
This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.
St. Augustine, Florida
A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.
St. Augustine, Florida
This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.
St. Augustine, Florida
It's a pretty creepy lock-up.
St. Augustine, Florida
A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.
Flagler Beach, Florida
The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.