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

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

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

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

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

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

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

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.