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.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

Locally known as the "Onion” and the "Egg Beater,” Casper’s most recognizable buildings are beloved local landmarks to many, and eyesores to others.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.