New Mexico Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball New Mexico places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Alamogordo: Atari Video Game Burial Grounds (Secret)
Alamogordo: Auto Parts Dinosaur
Alamogordo: Grave of Ham the Astrochimp
Alamogordo: New Mexico Museum of Space History
Alamogordo: Scrap Metal Roadrunner
Alamogordo: World's Largest Pistachio Nut
Albuquerque: American International Rattlesnake Museum
Albuquerque: Atomic Cannon
Albuquerque: Big Concrete Cowboy, Upper Half
Albuquerque: Bug House - Spaceship House
Albuquerque: Center of Albuquerque 1912
Albuquerque: Center of Albuquerque 2012
Albuquerque: Center of The Universe
Albuquerque: Cottonwood Madonna - Virgin of the Tree
Albuquerque: Cruising San Mateo I - Chevy on a Stick
Albuquerque: Giant Books
Albuquerque: Giant Curly Pink Ribbon - La Serpentina
Albuquerque: Giant Rattlesnake in the Median
Albuquerque: Giant Red Arrow
Albuquerque: High School Sea Serpent
Albuquerque: Historic Microsoft Headquarters
Albuquerque: Large Baseball and Bats
Albuquerque: Large Green Dinosaur
Albuquerque: Madonna of the Trail
Albuquerque: Muffler Man - Bunyan Mutant
Albuquerque: National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
Albuquerque: Route 66 Casino - Mother Road Slots
Albuquerque: Runaway Bride Pay Phone
Albuquerque: Shoe Tree, High Heel Variant
Albuquerque: Spray Foam Roadrunner
Albuquerque: UFO Crashed at Coffee Shop
Albuquerque: World's Longest Aerial Tramway
Angel Fire: New Mexico Vietnam Memorial
Artesia: Large Old West Statues
Aztec: A&W Root Beer family
Aztec: Aztec UFO Crash Site
Candy Kitchen: Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary
Capitan: Smokey Bear Museum And Grave
Chaparral: World's Largest Firecracker
Chilili: Tin Sheet Tombstones
Chimayo: El Santuario de Chimayo Shrine
Chloride: Ghost Town Pioneer Store Museum
Cimarron: Lucien Maxwell Statue
Clayton: Dinosaur Statues
Deming: Creepy Bataan Death March Monument
Dulce: "Project Gasbuggy" Atomic Explosion Site
Eagles Nest: Sea Serpent
Embudo: Classical Gas Museum
Eunice: Miniature B-52 Freedom Plane
Farmington: Kokopelli Cave - Sleep in a Cave
Farmington: Muffler Man - Sunny the Big Man
Farmington: Revolving Globe of Military Service
Faywood: City of Rocks - Toilet Rock
Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid's Replica Grave and Museum
Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid's Two Graves
Gallup: Big Indian and Navajo Code Talker
Gallup: El Rancho Hotel - Home of the Movie Stars
Gallup: Gallup Historical Sun Daggers
Gallup: Galoop
Gallup: Indian Kachina Statue
Gallup: Indian Statue
Gallup: Muffler Man - "Dude Man"
Gallup: The Devil's Highway - 666
Glenrio: Russell's Travel Center
Grants: Uranium Cafe
Hatch: Big Pink Pig
Hatch: Muffler Man - Soda Jerk
Hatch: RV Muffler Man
Hatch: Teako's Giants of Hatch
High Rolls - Mountain Park: Apple Boy
Hobbs: Failed Black Squirrel Town
Jal: Jal Lake, Metal Cattle Drive Sculpture
Lake Sumner: One Man's Privately-Built Rest Area
Las Cruces: "La Llorona" - Tourist Killing Ghost
Las Cruces: Bataan Death March Statue and Walkway
Las Cruces: Big Daddy - Armless Muffler Man
Las Cruces: Pat Garrett's Grave
Las Cruces: Propane Powered Rocket
Las Cruces: Recycled Roadrunner - Temporarily Gone
Las Cruces: Rocket City Theme Park (Proposed)
Las Cruces: Toth-Carved Big Indian Head

Las Cruces: World's Largest Chili Pepper
Las Cruces: Yard of Junk Art
Las Vegas: Calumet Sign from Movie Red Dawn
Lordsburg: Fraggle Rock
Lordsburg: Shakespeare Ghost Town
Los Alamos: The Black Hole: Atomic Surplus Store
Loving: Project Gnome Atomic Explosion Site
Mesilla: Billy the Kid Gift Shop
Mesilla: La Posta de Mesilla, Billy the Kid Jail
Mesilla: Relics of the Hermit of La Cueva
Mesilla: Stabbed Lovers Haunted Restaurant
Moriarty: Memorial of Perpetual Tears
Organ: Space Murals Museum
Portales: Personal Collection of Windmills - Moving
Queen: Flying Paper Boy of the Guadalupes
Quemado: The Lightning Field
Ranchos de Taos: Rio Grande Gorge Bridge: Pedestrian Thrills
Raton: Miracle Jesus Image on Front Door
Raton: RoboCop Miner Statue
Roadforks: Ghost Town of Steins
Rodeo: World's Largest Rattlesnake Rattle
Roswell: Alien Print Shop Mural
Roswell: Alien Sentinel at KFC
Roswell: Alien Streetlights of Roswell
Roswell: Alien Theme Park - Proposed
Roswell: Aliens on Senior Center Tree Trunk
Roswell: Area 51 Museum, Alien Zone
Roswell: Flying Saucer McDonald's
Roswell: Flying Saucer and Alien Flip Phoner
Roswell: Home Built Mini-Saucer #1
Roswell: International UFO Museum
Roswell: Post Office Drop Box Painted Like R2D2
Roswell: Robert Goddard Statue and Rocket
Roswell: Roswell Alien Attraction Autopsy
Roswell: Roswell Wal-Mart Alien Decorations
Roswell: Spacewalk at Roswell Space Center
Roswell: Starchild
Roswell: Stealth Saucer on Wheels
Roswell: Tree of Knowledge
Ruidoso Downs: Galloping Horse Statues
Sandia Park: Tinkertown
Santa Clara: Land of Cibola - Seven Cities of Gold
Santa Fe: Camel Rock
Santa Fe: Elephants and Other Sculptures
Santa Fe: Folk Art All Mixed Together
Santa Fe: Gravity-Defying Staircase
Santa Fe: Hand Mail Box and Rock Lizard
Santa Fe: Hollywood Western Town
Santa Fe: Life-size Brontosaurus Family
Santa Fe: Oldest Church in the U.S.
Santa Fe: Oldest House in the U.S.
Santa Fe: The Burning of Zozobra
Santa Rosa: New Mexico's Blue Hole
Santa Rosa: Route 66 Auto Museum
Santa Teresa: Four Atomic Bombs
Separ: Continental Divide Store and Teepee
Shiprock: Four Corners USA
Socorro: New Mexico's Other UFO Landing Site
Socorro: The Very Large Array
Springer: New Mexico's Electric Chair
Sunland Park: Sierra de Cristo Rey, Christ of the Rockies
Taos: Dennis Hopper's Jail Cell
Taos: Earthship Biotecture Houses
Taos: Large Metal Glasses
Tatum: Metal Art Town
Tent Rocks: Tent Rocks
Tesuque: Shidoni - Statue Bronze Pouring
Trujillo: Roadside Religious Shrine
Truth or Consequences: Mini-Vietnam Wall and Statue of Liberty
Tucumcari: Blue Swallow Motel - Route 66
Tucumcari: Irrigation Pipe Cactus
Tucumcari: La Cita - Mexican Hat on Route 66
Tucumcari: Route 66 Monument
Tucumcari: Tee Pee Curios on Route 66
White Sands: Nike Missile Rest Stop
White Sands: Trinity Atomic Test Site
White Sands: White Sands Rocket Garden and Museum
White's City: Carlsbad Caverns
White's City: Ten-Foot-Tall Green Aliens

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Alamogordo: Stagecoach and Mad Max Cars - Gone
Albuquerque: Route 66 - Aztec Motel
Carlsbad: The Gargoyles Motel - Gone
Lake Arthur: Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla
Madrid: The Bone Zone - Gone
Northwest Chaves: UFO Crashed Here Sign - Gone
Roswell: Alien Sno

Roswell: Alien Zone II - Closed
Santa Fe: Stonefridge (Gone)
Truth or Consequences: Truth or Consequences Car Museum - Closed
White's City: Apache Canyon Trading Post - Closed
White's City: Million Dollar Museum

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