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

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

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

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

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

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

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

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

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

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

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

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

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

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

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

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

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

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

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

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