Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This is one really big nut.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

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

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

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

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

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

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.