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

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

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

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

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

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

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

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

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

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

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

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

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.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

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

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

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.