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A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

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

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

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

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

Exploring the past, present, and future of blues music.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Located in the place where the Columbia space shuttle came down, a museum-memorial that is both touching and informative.

These boots are made for selfies.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

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

Local artists have long claimed these highway pylons as a place to celebrate Mexican-American history through artwork.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.