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

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

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

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

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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

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

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

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

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

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

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

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

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

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

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

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

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

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

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