The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

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

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

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

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

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

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

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

All that remains of this once-booming mining town are the ruins of a saloon.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.