Marfa, Texas
Marfa Lights
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
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Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Faywood, New Mexico
These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.
Deming, New Mexico
A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.
Cottonwood, Arizona
Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.
Camp Verde, Arizona
Inside this garden, visitors are offered a glimpse into how inhabitants of the region survived centuries ago.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.
San Francisco, California
An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
San Francisco, California
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
San Francisco, California
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Mountain View, California
From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Memphis, Tennessee
A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.
Memphis, Tennessee
A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.