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A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

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

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.