A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.

The former home of the famed revolutionary Pancho Villa is now a museum in his honor.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.

The only place for a truly presidential dram.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.