Luray, Virginia
The Great Stalacpipe Organ
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
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Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Madrid, New Mexico
Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.
Pecos, New Mexico
Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
At this research institute, the chile is king.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Magdalena, New Mexico
The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Williamsburg, Virginia
History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”
Madrid, New Mexico
A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Arlington, Virginia
This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.
Brooklyn, New York
What was once a vast naval cemetery is now home to nesting birds and pollinating bees.
Newport News, Virginia
The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.
Staunton, Virginia
Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.
Staunton, Virginia
A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.
Mechanicsville, Virginia
The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.
Richmond, Virginia
The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.
Charlottesville, Virginia
An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.