Magdalena, New Mexico
The Very Large Array
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
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Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Des Moines, New Mexico
This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Pecos, New Mexico
Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.
New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The birthplace of Las Vegas is now preserved as a historic and natural area.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.