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

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

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

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

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

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

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

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

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

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

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

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

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

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

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

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

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

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

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

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

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

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