This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

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

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

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

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

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

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

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

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

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