The remnants of sheer survival in Dublin's monastery district.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

A pink and gray pair of pachyderms advertise a fireworks shop.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

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

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

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

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

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

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

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

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

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

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.