Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

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

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

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

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.

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

This is one really big nut.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

An amazing stag sculpture constructed entirely of discarded materials.