Santa Fe, New Mexico
Spitz Clock
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.
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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.
Madrid, New Mexico
A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.
Roswell, New Mexico
Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.
Madrid, New Mexico
Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.
Roswell, New Mexico
A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Lake City, Colorado
The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.
Leadville, Colorado
This notorious dive has been serving up both kinds of spirits since 1879.
Manassa, Colorado
The former home of the "Manassa Mauler" is now a museum dedicated to his legendary boxing career.
Cascade, Colorado
This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.
Leadville, Colorado
In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.
Fort Collins, Colorado
Built in 1981 in collaboration with Andy Warhol, this giant piece of pop art stands on the campus of Colorado State University.
Fairplay, Colorado
This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.