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This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

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

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

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

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

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

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.