An urban laboratory.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

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

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

At this research institute, the chile is king.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

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

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

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

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

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

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

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.