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

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

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

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

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

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

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

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

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

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

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

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

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

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

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

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

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

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.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.