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The home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle is now a library and museum dedicated to his memory.

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

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

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.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

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

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

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

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.