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

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

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

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.

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

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

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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

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

This is one really big nut.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

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

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.