The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

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

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

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

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

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

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

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This Portland Art gallery doubles as a studio that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.