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

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.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

Mysterious markers have been giving the public a lesson in dendrochronology for over a century.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

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

The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

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

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

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”