This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

Located in a remote part of a Louisiana wildlife refuge, this tree has been standing for more than 1,200 years.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

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

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

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

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

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

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

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

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

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

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

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

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