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A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

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

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

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

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

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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