New Mexico

New Reports

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  Billy the Kid Museum and Replica Grave

  Fort Sumner, New Mexico

  Outlaw Billy didn't have much, but much of what he had is displayed here, along with an accurate replica of his grave.

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  Billy the Kid's Grave

  Fort Sumner, New Mexico

  Enclosed in a steel cage to prevent theft. Outlaw Billy the Kid's punishment is to be not only dead, but to spend eternity behind bars.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

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  New Mexico Museum of Space History

  Alamogordo, New Mexico

  New Mexico reaches for the stars with an educational and amusing collection of exhibits and unique artifacts.

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  National Museum of Nuclear Science and History

  Albuquerque, New Mexico

  Former National Atomic Museum still packs a punch with weapons and memorabilia of the Atom Age.

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  Teako's Giants of Hatch

  Hatch, New Mexico

  Teako Nunn has gathered America's fiberglass statue elite at his BBQ restaurant and RV business.

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  International UFO Museum

  Roswell, New Mexico

  Most serious look at UFOs in town. For those who go bug-eyed over little green men and their cracked-up saucers, the truth is in here.

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  Area 51 Museum, Alien Zone

  Roswell, New Mexico

  Pose for gag photos with aliens, and see a black light City of the Future!

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  Roswell Alien Attraction Autopsy

  Roswell, New Mexico

  Bulb-headed aliens and outer space jalopies: a sure sign you've reached downtown Roswell.

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  Tinkertown

  Sandia Park, New Mexico

  Tiny miniatures -- too many to count -- in mechanical motion, the life's work of the late Ross Ward.

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  House of Eternal Return

  Santa Fe, New Mexico

  A choose-your-own-adventure sci-fi multiverse of art and musical lasers. Wormholes, alternate realities, and a video hamster.

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  Four Corners USA

  Shiprock, New Mexico

  Geographical join point where four states meet, marked with an official seal and ringed by souvenir stands.

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  The Very Large Array (VLA)

  Socorro, New Mexico

  Money-shot from countless sci-fi films, the VLA listens for exotic space noise while tolerating terrestrial tourists.

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  World's Largest Pistachio Nut

  Alamogordo, New Mexico

  30 feet high, and painted in bright colors not seen in other giant nuts.

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  White Sands: Alien Dunescape

  Alamogordo, New Mexico

  Ride snow saucers year-round down towering dunes of gypsum crystals. Surprisingly close to civilization for an alien moonscape.

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  Atomic Cannon

  Albuquerque, New Mexico

  One of the surviving M65 280mm Atomic Cannons, designed to fire a nuclear shell far enough so that it would vaporize an enemy without vaporizing itself.

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  Smokey Bear Museum And Grave

  Capitan, New Mexico

  Smokey Bear was a cartoon character and a real bear. A cartoon lives forever, but the real bear died.

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  El Santuario de Chimayo Shrine

  Chimayo, New Mexico

  Miraculous Catholic shrine in New Mexico. Many attest to the spiritual and physical curative powers of faith in the sacred dirt.