Terlingua, Texas
Lajitas Ghost Town
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
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Terlingua, Texas
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Capitan, New Mexico
The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.
Bosque, New Mexico
The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.
El Paso, Texas
A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Saltville, Virginia
This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.
San Antonio, Texas
This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.
Tyler, Texas
A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Three Rivers, New Mexico
More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Sandia Park, New Mexico
"I did this all while you were watching TV."
Sweetwater, Texas
A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.
New Mexico
One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
Harmony, Minnesota
This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.
Ehrenberg, Arizona
The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.
Denio, Nevada
Mine your own precious stones.
Stoneville, Newfoundland and Labrador
The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.
Belleville, Wisconsin
Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.
Golconda, Nevada
A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.