New Mexico
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World's Largest Pistachio
Alamogordo, New Mexico
30 feet high, this otherworldly monolith rises from the Chihuahuan Desert.
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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.
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.
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.
Teako's Giants of Hatch
Hatch, New Mexico
Teako Nunn has gathered America's fiberglass statue elite at his BBQ restaurant and RV business.
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.
Area 51 Museum, Alien Zone
Roswell, New Mexico
Pose for gag photos with aliens, and see a black light City of the Future!
Roswell Alien Attraction Autopsy
Roswell, New Mexico
Bulb-headed aliens and outer space jalopies: a sure sign you've reached downtown Roswell.
Tinkertown
Sandia Park, New Mexico
Tiny miniatures -- too many to count -- in mechanical motion, the life's work of the late Ross Ward.
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.
Four Corners USA
Shiprock, New Mexico
Geographical join point where four states meet, marked with an official seal and ringed by souvenir stands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
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- Alamogordo: World's Largest Pistachio
- Alamogordo: New Mexico Museum of Space History
- Alamogordo: White Sands: Alien Dunescape
- Albuquerque: Atomic Cannon
- Albuquerque: Muffler Man: Lumberjack Mutant [tips]
- Albuquerque: National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
- Albuquerque: Chevy on a Stick
- Albuquerque: X-Ray Museum [tips]
- Artesia: Large Old West Statues [tips]
- Artesia: The Derrick Floor
- Capitan: Smokey Bear Museum And Grave
- Capulin: Drive to Rim of Volcano [tips]
- Carrizozo: Valley of Fires Lava Fields [tips]
- Chimayo: El Santuario de Chimayo Shrine
- Cimarron: Old Aztec Mill Museum [tips]
- Columbus: U.S. Invaded Here [tips]
- Continental Divide: Continental Divide Trading Post [tips]
- Deming: Unsettling Bataan Death March Monument [tips]
- Embudo: Classical Gas Museum [tips]
- Farmington: Muffler Man - Sunny the Big Man
- Farmington: Kokopelli Cave - Sleep in a Cave [tips]
- Faywood: City of Rocks - Toilet Rock [tips]
- Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid's Grave
- Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid Museum and Replica Grave
- Gallup: Navajo Travel Indian Statue [tips]
- Gallup: Indian Kachina Statue [tips]
- Glencoe: Fox Cave: Muffler Man [tips]
- Glencoe: X Files Props in Quirky Fox Cave Museum [tips]
- Grants: Ice Cave and Bandera Volcano [tips]
- Grants: Replica Uranium Mine [tips]
- Grants: Route 66 Neon Drive-Thru
- Hatch: RV Muffler Man [tips]
- Hatch: Teako's Giants of Hatch
- High Rolls: Apple Boy
- Las Cruces: Big Daddy - Armless Muffler Man
- Las Cruces: Recycled Roadrunner
- Las Cruces: Bataan Death March Statue and Walkway
- Las Cruces: World's Largest Chile Pepper [tips]
- Loving: Project Gnome Atomic Explosion Site
- Madrid: Connie's Photo Park [tips]
- Moriarty: Memorial of Perpetual Tears [tips]
- Moriarty: Lewis Antique Auto and Toy Museum [tips]
- Organ: Space Murals Museum
- Portales: Personal Collection of Windmills [tips]
- Queen: Flying Paper Boy of the Guadalupes
- Roswell: International UFO Museum
- Roswell: Area 51 Museum, Alien Zone
- Roswell: Robert Goddard Statue and Rocket
- Roswell: Roswell Alien Attraction Autopsy
- Sandia Park: Tinkertown
- Santa Fe: Ethyl, Giant Recycled Blue Whale [tips]
- Santa Fe: Life-size Brontosaurus Family [tips]
- Santa Fe: 30-Foot-Tall Robot, Giant Spider
- Santa Fe: House of Eternal Return
- Shiprock: Four Corners USA
- Socorro: The Very Large Array (VLA)
- Socorro: Recycled Parts Flying Saucer [tips]
- Springer: New Mexico's Electric Chair
- Sunland Park: Sierra de Cristo Rey, Christ of the Rockies [tips]
- Three Rivers: Three Rivers Petroglyph Site [tips]
- White Sands: Trinity Atomic Test Site [tips]
- White Sands: White Sands Rocket Garden and Museum
- White's City: Carlsbad Caverns
