High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

This is one really big nut.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

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

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

The only international border marker within the United States.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

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

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

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

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A surprise blip of color and kitsch.

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.