This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

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

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