A historic canal winds through a unique, swampy landscape.

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

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

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

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

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

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

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

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

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

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

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

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.