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The highest peak in the Jemez Mountains and the traditional center of the Pueblo world.

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

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

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

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

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

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.”

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

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

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

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

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

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

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