A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This is one really big nut.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

These boots are made for selfies.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.