The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A memorial dedicated to veterans of all wars especially those lost in Bataan defending the Philippines during World War II.

One of the world’s most powerful corporations was established on a random Albuquerque street corner.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

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

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

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

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

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

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

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

This is one really big nut.