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

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

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

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

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

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

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

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

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

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

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

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

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 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.

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