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.

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

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

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

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This is one really big nut.

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

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

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

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

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

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

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

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.