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These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

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

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

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

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.

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

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

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.