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

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

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

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

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

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

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

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

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

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

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.