The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This is one really big nut.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

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

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

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

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

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

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

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

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

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.