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

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

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

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

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

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

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

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

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

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

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

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

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

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

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

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

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.