Dawson, New Mexico
Dawson Ghost Town
All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.
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Dawson, New Mexico
All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.
Des Moines, New Mexico
This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.
Lincoln, New Mexico
The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.
Ramah, New Mexico
Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.
New Mexico
One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Los Lunas, New Mexico
On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Winslow, Arizona
A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Denver, Colorado
Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.
Boulder, Colorado
This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.
Del Norte, Colorado
A mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the rock wall by canyon's religious namesake.
Cripple Creek, Colorado
Inside this casino, visitors are treated to slot machines and a rare German Christmas pyramid.
Fort Collins, Colorado
After being lost for nearly a century, this historic bell finally returned home after its mysterious theft.
Breckenridge, Colorado
The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.
Denver, Colorado
A focal point of in Denver’s skyline for over a century, inspired by a Venetian basilica.
Del Norte, Colorado
Historic, 19th-century wagon wheel ruts cut into soft volcanic ash.
Lakewood, Colorado
One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.
Central City, Colorado
Central City celebrates its most famous madam by racing beds down Main Street.