History & Culture in New Mexico

Step back in time at an outdoor living history museum where New Mexico's cultural traditions come alive.

This ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande is home to a little-known LGBTQ history of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Marie Chabot, and two-spirit Navajo weaver Hastiin Klah.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.