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Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

This memorial was created by an Irish nurse who lived in New York City during 9/11.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.