New Mexico

New Reports

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  Big Daddy - Armless Muffler Man

  Las Cruces, New Mexico

  This physically challenged fiberglass statue somehow holds a sign for his flea market, an inspiring triumph of will and wire.

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. Follow wormholes from a suburban house to alternate realities, and keep an eye peeled for the 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 destroy 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.