Los Alamos, New Mexico
Main Gate Park
This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.
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Los Alamos, New Mexico
This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Alpine, Texas
This is probably not the Target you're looking for.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Big Bend National Park, Texas
This gravity-defying rock formation is one of Big Bend’s natural wonders.
Fort Stockton, Texas
The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.
Midland, Texas
The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.
Beatrice, Nebraska
This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.
Columbus, Ohio
An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.
Columbus, Ohio
This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.
Centerville, Indiana
A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.
Rapid City, South Dakota
Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Midland, South Dakota
Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.
Chamberlain, South Dakota
A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.
South Island, New Zealand
The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.
Puponga, New Zealand
This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.
Takaka, New Zealand
Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.
Tongwynlais, Wales
High Victorian fantasy created a fairytale castle out of a ruined fortress in Wales.
Saint Fagans, Wales
Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.