Aztec, New Mexico
Aztec Ruins National Monument
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
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Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.
Grants, New Mexico
A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.
Lordsburg, New Mexico
The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
At this research institute, the chile is king.
Cedar Crest, New Mexico
Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
New Mexico
One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.
Kanab, Utah
Not your typical pet cemetery.
West Mercur, Utah
This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.
Hill AFB, Utah
The last SR-71 ever constructed.
Logan, Utah
Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.
Green River, Utah
A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.
West Valley City, Utah
"May the force be with you always."
Salt Lake City, Utah
Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.
Delta, Utah
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Fort Mohave, Arizona
Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.
Kingman, Arizona
A tribute to the statues of Easter Island along Route 66.