America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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

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

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

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

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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