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

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

A flat-topped butte that makes a constant backdrop for Western art.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

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

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

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.