The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

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

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This statue is in the center of San Jacinto Plaza, commemorating the live alligator pond that once stood in the area.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The tunnel that runs beneath this former inn was once a hiding place for enslaved people seeking freedom.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

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

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