Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Every inch of this chapel is covered in craftsmanship from across the world.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

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

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.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

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

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.