This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

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

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

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

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.

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

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

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

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

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

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

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

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

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

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

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

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

The final resting place of the father of modern biological taxonomy.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.