This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

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

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

This is one really big nut.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

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.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

These engineering masterpieces are a dominant feature of the Belfast skyline.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

The humble beginnings of one of America’s greatest songsmiths.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

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