This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

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

This small canyon park was once the main street of Silver City—until a flood washed it away.

Once a mining boom town, Mogollon’s well-preserved buildings are tucked away in the mountains of the Gila National Forest.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

This 1863 adobe building is home to one of the oldest operating saloons in the Southwest.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A surprise blip of color and kitsch.

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

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

This cultural center showcases what may be the oldest ongoing community in all of North America.

This cave column thousands of feet below the earth’s surface is rightly named for one of the most colorful park rangers in history.

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

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

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

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

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

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

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