This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.

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.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

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

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

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

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

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

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