New Mexico
Find New Mexico travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
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World’s Largest Pistachio Nut Is Blessed
Alamogordo - The World’s Largest Pistachio Nut was officially dedicated and blessed by a priest from nearby La Luz. Full story
Featured Attractions
El Santuario de Chimayo Shrine
Chimayo, New Mexico
Miraculous Catholic shrine in New Mexico. Many attest to the spiritual and physical curative powers of the sacred dirt, so don't take our "attitude" to heart...
International UFO Museum And Research Center
Roswell, New Mexico
Bug-eyed over green men and their crazy, crack-up saucers. This is the most "official" of the space alien attractions in town.
Monument to the Flying Paper Boy
Queen, New Mexico
One of the most obscure, remote monuments in America, marking the spot where "the flying paper boy of the Guadalupes" crashed.
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Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Alamogordo: Grave of Ham, astrochimp
- Albuquerque: National Museum of Nuclear Science and History [tips]
- Carlsbad: "The Gargoyles" motel [tips]
- Capitan: Smokey Bear's Grave
- Chimayo: Lourdes of America
- City of Rocks State Park: Toilet Seat Rock [tips]
- Four Corners: Where Four States Meet
- Ft. Sumner: Billy the Kid's Graves
- Las Cruces: Recycled Roadrunner [tips]
- Los Alamos: The Black Hole
- Madrid: Tiny Town [tips]
- Queen: Flying Paperboy of the Guadalupes monument
- Quemado: Lightning Field [tips]
- Roswell: UFO Museum, Alien Zone, Area 51 Museum [tips]
- Sandia: Ross Ward's Tinkertown Museum [tips]
- Santa Fe: Mysterious Staircase [tips]
- Santa Fe: Burning of Zozobra [tips]
- Socorro: The Very Large Array [tips]
- Springer: New Mexico's Only Electric Chair
- Springer: Santa Fe Trail Museum - claimed shoe of world's largest man
- Tucumcari: Irrigation pipe cactus [tips]
- Tucumcari: Route 66 Monument
- Tucumcari: Blue Swallow motel [tips]
- White's City: Apache Canyon Trading Post
- White's City: Carlsbad Caverns
