El Paso, Texas
Hueco Tanks
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
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El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Carlow, Ireland
This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.
New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
New York, New York
The notorious headquarters of a corrupt political machine.
Bern, Switzerland
A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
New York, New York
A semi-scholarly approach to sex.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Paris, France
Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.
Berkley, Massachusetts
A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.
Boston, Massachusetts
"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.
Rockport, Massachusetts
An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.
Cerne Abbas, England
Giant naked man on a hillside.
Bratton, England
A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.
Heath, Massachusetts
A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.