A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

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

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

A monument celebrating the Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.