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

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

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

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.

The natural history of Utah is on full display inside this museum.

A late-19th century diversion canal built by hand crosses Bryce Canyon National Park and is still in use.