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A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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.

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