The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

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

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

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

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

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

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

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

An 18th-century townhouse that once hosted guests of the president.

One of the first Second Empire-style buildings constructed in North America.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.