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

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.