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This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

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

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

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

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.