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

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

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

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

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

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

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

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

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

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

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

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

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

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

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

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

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

This is one really big nut.

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

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

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

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

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.