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

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

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

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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

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.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

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

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

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

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.