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Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Before it was buried by volcanic ash, this fast-food restaurant fed the hungry hordes of ancient Rome.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

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

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

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

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

A unique gallery filled with art that is interactive, accessible, and generates a ripple effect of creativity

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.

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

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.