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An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

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

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

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

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.