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

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

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

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

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

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

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

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

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

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

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

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

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