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Shoes and revealing shirts are not allowed inside this giant Vietnamese Christ.

Marikina's record-breaking loafers.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

A Viking-themed bar in a canal town for those retreating from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.

Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.

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

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

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

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

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

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

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.