Roswell, New Mexico
International UFO Museum and Research Center
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
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Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
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."
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Tupelo, Mississippi
This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.
Las Heras Department, Argentina
Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.
San Rafael, Argentina
This Argentinian hedge maze is an intricate tribute to a famous surrealist author.
Ishøj, Denmark
Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.
Antarctica
An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.
La Push, Washington
A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.
Villa Baviera, Chile
Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.
Punta Arenas, Chile
An hour south of Punta Arenas (Chile) along the Strait of Magellan, a Kcymaerxthaere plaque tells the story of Culev Larsze, cursed to live without words in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.
Concepción, Chile
The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.
Santiago, Chile
It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.
Arica, Chile
70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.
Valparaiso, Chile
This historic Chilean cemetery is the burial place of hundreds of European and American freethinkers and non-Catholics.