Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Water Gardens
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
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Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
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."
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
New York, New York
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
Jacumba, California
Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Los Angeles, California
In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
Borrego Springs, California
Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.