A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

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

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

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

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

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

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

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

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.