One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

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

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.