New Mexico Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in New Mexico. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Albuquerque | Roswell | Santa Fe
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Abiquiu: Big Pink Flamingo
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Abiquiu: Echo Amphitheater
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Alamogordo: Air Duct Man
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Alamogordo: Grave of Ham the Astrochimp
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Alamogordo: Largest Glowing Heart
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Alamogordo: Mac Tonight: Welcome to Alamogordo
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Alamogordo: New Mexico Museum of Space History
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Alamogordo: Scrap Metal Roadrunner
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Alamogordo: Shroud Exhibit and Museum
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Alamogordo: Toy Train Depot
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Alamogordo: VW Spider
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Alamogordo: White Sands: Alien Dunescape
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Alamogordo: World's Largest Pistachio
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Albuquerque: 66 Diner and Wall o' Signs
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Albuquerque: Atomic Cannon
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Albuquerque: Big Cowboy, Upper Half
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Albuquerque: Breaking Bad Meth Candy
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Albuquerque: Breaking Bad Store
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Albuquerque: Bug House - Spaceship House
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Albuquerque: Center of Albuquerque 1912
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Albuquerque: Center of Albuquerque 2012
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Albuquerque: Center of the Universe
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Albuquerque: Chevy on a Stick
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Albuquerque: Cottonwood Madonna - Virgin of the Tree
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Albuquerque: Dog House Drive-In
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Albuquerque: Giant Books
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Albuquerque: Giant Rattlesnake in the Median
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Albuquerque: Giant Red Arrow
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Albuquerque: High School Sea Serpent
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Albuquerque: Historic Microsoft Headquarters
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Albuquerque: Large Baseball and Bats
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Albuquerque: Longest Aerial Tramway in the U.S.
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Albuquerque: Madonna of the Trail
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Albuquerque: Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong Murals
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Albuquerque: Meteorite Museum
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Albuquerque: Muffler Man: Lumberjack Mutant
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Albuquerque: National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
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Albuquerque: Owl Cafe
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Albuquerque: Rattlesnake Museum
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Albuquerque: Self Storage Dinosaur
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Albuquerque: Shoe Tree, High Heel Variant
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Albuquerque: Spray Foam Roadrunner
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Albuquerque: Sticker Wall
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Albuquerque: Telephone Museum of New Mexico: JFK Teletype
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Albuquerque: Tin Man, Other Scrap Art
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Albuquerque: Tombstone of Breaking Bad's Walter White
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Albuquerque: Walter and Skylar White's House - Breaking Bad
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Albuquerque: X-Ray Museum
- Albuquerque: Yesteryear Travel: Fashion Horizons
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Alcalde: Boondoggle Conquistador Visitor Center
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Angel Fire: New Mexico Vietnam Memorial
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Artesia: ABO Elementary School and Fallout Shelter
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Artesia: Large Old West Statues
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Artesia: The Derrick Floor
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Aztec: Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village
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Aztec: Skewered Car On a Pole
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Aztec: UFO Crashed Here
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Belen: Drive-In Teen Burger
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Candy Kitchen: Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary
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Capitan: Smokey Bear Museum And Grave
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Capulin: Drive to Rim of Volcano
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Carlsbad: Carlsbad Caverns Discovered - Statue
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Carlsbad: Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
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Carrizozo: Valley of Fires Lava Fields
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Chaparral: World's Largest Firecracker
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Chilili: Tin Sheet Tombstones
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Chimayo: El Santuario de Chimayo Shrine
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Chimayo: LowLow's Lowrider Art
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Chloride: Ghost Town Pioneer Store Museum
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Cimarron: Lucien Maxwell Statue
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Cimarron: Old Aztec Mill Museum
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Clayton: Dinosaur Statues
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Clayton: Undulating Dragon
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Clovis: Clovis Man: America's Oldest Inhabitant
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Clovis: Norman and Vi Petty Rock 'n' Roll Museum
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Columbus: U.S. Invaded Here
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Continental Divide: Continental Divide Trading Post
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Deming: Bowlin's Akela Flats
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Deming: Cabinetlandia
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Deming: Unsettling Bataan Death March Monument
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Dulce: Project Gasbuggy Atomic Explosion Site
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Embudo: Classical Gas Museum
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Eunice: Miniature B-52 Freedom Plane
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Farmington: Kokopelli Cave - Sleep in a Cave
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Farmington: Muffler Man - Sunny the Big Man
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Farmington: Revolving Globe of Military Service
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Faywood: City of Rocks - Toilet Rock
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Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid Killed Here
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Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid Museum and Replica Grave
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Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid's Caged Grave
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Gallup: Big Indian and Navajo Code Talker
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Gallup: El Rancho Hotel - Home of the Movie Stars
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Gallup: Gallup Historical Sun Daggers
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Gallup: Galoop
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Gallup: Indian Kachina Statue
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Gallup: Muffler Man - "Dude Man"
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Gallup: The Devil's Highway: Route 666
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Gallup: Tow Truck Atop Tower
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Gallup: We The People Park
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Glenrio: Russell's Travel Center Museum
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Golden: Bottle House
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Grants: Ice Cave and Bandera Volcano
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Grants: Replica Uranium Mine
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Grants: Route 66 Neon Drive-Thru
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Hatch: Big Pink Pig
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Hatch: Muffler Man: Soda Jerk
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Hatch: RV Muffler Man
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Hatch: Sparky's Trading Post
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Hatch: Teako's Giants of Hatch
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High Rolls: Apple Boy
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Hobbs: Flying Fortress of the Plains
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Jal: Jal Lake, Metal Cattle Drive Sculpture
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Lake Sumner: One Man's Privately-Built Rest Area
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Las Cruces: Bataan Death March Statue and Walkway
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Las Cruces: Big Daddy - Armless Muffler Man
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Las Cruces: El Toro, Flea Market Bull
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Las Cruces: Pat Garrett Killed Here
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Las Cruces: Pat Garrett Murder Site Sign
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Las Cruces: Pat Garrett's Grave
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Las Cruces: Pink Spotted Elephant
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Las Cruces: Propane Powered Rocket
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Las Cruces: Recycled Roadrunner
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Las Cruces: Toth-Carved Big Indian Head
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Las Cruces: World's Largest Chile Pepper
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Las Vegas: Bobby Valdez Sculpture Garden
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Las Vegas: Calumet Say Howdy: Red Dawn Wall Mural
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Las Vegas: Plaza Hotel: No Country For Old Men
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Lincoln: Billy the Kid Jailbreak: Bullet Hole, Death Plaques
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Lordsburg: Fraggle Rock
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Lordsburg: Shakespeare Ghost Town
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Los Alamos: Atom Bomb Backpack
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Los Alamos: JFK Was Here Gateway
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Loving: Project Gnome Atomic Explosion Site
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Madrid: Cattle Crossing UFO Signs
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Madrid: Connie's Photo Park
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Mesilla: Billy the Kid Gift Shop
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Mesilla: La Posta de Mesilla, Billy the Kid Jail
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Mesilla: Relics of the Hermit of La Cueva
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Mesilla: Stabbed Lovers Haunted Restaurant
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Milan: Aviation Heritage Museum
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Moriarty: Lewis Antique Auto and Toy Museum
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Moriarty: Memorial of Perpetual Tears
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Moriarty: Route 66 License Plate Mural
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Moriarty: Soaring Museum - Gliders
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Ohkay Owingeh: Cattle Crossing UFO Sign
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Organ: Space Murals Museum
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Portales: Ancient Bones Dig Site
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Portales: Personal Collection of Windmills
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Portales: Pioneer Dugout Replica
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Queen: Flying Paper Boy of the Guadalupes
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Quemado: The Lightning Field
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Ranchos de Taos: Rio Grande Gorge Bridge: Pedestrian Thrills
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Raton: RoboCop Miner Statue
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Rio Puerco: Route 66 Casino - Mother Road Slots
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Rodeo: World's Largest Rattlesnake Rattle
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Roswell: Afrikacorps POW Iron Cross
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Roswell: Alien "Welcome to Roswell" Art
- Roswell: Alien Apex Resort (Proposed)
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Roswell: Alien Couple Carved from Stumps
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Roswell: Alien Doughnut Overlord
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Roswell: Alien Print Shop Mural
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Roswell: Alien Riding Roadrunner
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Roswell: Alien Streetlights of Roswell
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Roswell: Alien Zone: Area 51
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Roswell: Aliens on Senior Center Tree Trunk
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Roswell: Flying Saucer McDonald's
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Roswell: Home Built Mini-Saucer
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Roswell: International UFO Museum
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Roswell: Invasion Station
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Roswell: Motel Saucer and Alien
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Roswell: Pizza Chain Space Alien
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Roswell: Robert Goddard Statue and Rocket
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Roswell: Roswell Alien Attraction Autopsy
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Roswell: Roswell UFO Spacewalk
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Roswell: Roswell Visitor Center: Pose With Aliens
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Roswell: Roswell Welcome Sign: Saucer and Cows
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Roswell: Spaceport Roswell
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Roswell: Tree of Knowledge
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Roswell: We Believe! Mural
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Roswell: Welcome Alien Statue
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Ruidoso Downs: Fox Cave: Billy the Kid, Zombie Hands
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Ruidoso Downs: Galloping Horse Statues
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Ruidoso: Putting Green Grave
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Sandia Park: Tinkertown
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Santa Clara: Land of Cibola - Seven Cities of Gold
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Santa Fe: 30-Foot-Tall Robot, Giant Spider
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Santa Fe: Big Dog Swing
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Santa Fe: Big Dynamite and Gold Golf Ball
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Santa Fe: Big Molecule of the Cognition Enhancer
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Santa Fe: Burro Alley
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Santa Fe: Camel Rock
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Santa Fe: Carved Archangels
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Santa Fe: Ethyl, Giant Recycled Blue Whale
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Santa Fe: Folk Art All Mixed Together
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Santa Fe: Hand Mail Box
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Santa Fe: House of Eternal Return
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Santa Fe: Large Indian Head
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Santa Fe: Life-size Brontosaurus Family
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Santa Fe: Miraculous Gravity-Defying Staircase
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Santa Fe: Oldest Church in the U.S.
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Santa Fe: Oldest House in the U.S.
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Santa Fe: The Burning of Zozobra
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Santa Rosa: Route 66 Auto Museum
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Santa Rosa: The Blue Hole
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Santa Teresa: Four Atomic Bombs
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Separ: Continental Divide Store and Teepee
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Shiprock: Four Corners USA
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Socorro: Chunk of "Jumbo" From First A-Bomb Blast
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Socorro: New Mexico's Other UFO Landing Site
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Socorro: Recycled Parts Flying Saucer
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Socorro: The Very Large Array
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Springer: New Mexico's Electric Chair
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Sunland Park: Sierra de Cristo Rey, Christ of the Rockies
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Sunspot: National Solar Observatory
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Taos: Earthship Biotecture Houses
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Taos: Large Metal Glasses
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Tatum: Metal Art Town
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Three Rivers: Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
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Three Rivers: Three Rivers Trading Post
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Tinnie: Tubular Art
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Truchas: Motorcycle Tombstones
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Truth or Consequences: Memorial to Drowned Boy Scouts
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Truth or Consequences: Mini-Vietnam Wall and Statue of Liberty
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Truth or Consequences: Ralph Edwards Room and Wax Geronimo
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Truth or Consequences: Spaceport America Tour
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Tucumcari: Blue Swallow Motel: Route 66
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Tucumcari: Dinosaur Skeletons in Bronze
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Tucumcari: La Cita Sombrero
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Tucumcari: Roadrunner Lodge: Magic Fingers
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Tucumcari: Route 66 Monument
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Tucumcari: Tee Pee Curios on Route 66
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Vanderwagen: Native American Basket Satellite Dishes
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Vaughn: Cowboy Rukus: Giant Cowboy Cutouts
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White Rock: Prehistoric Ruins Just off the Highway
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White Sands: Father and Son Vanished Here
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White Sands: Nike Missile Rest Stop
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White Sands: Trinity Atomic Test Site
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White Sands: White Sands Rocket Garden and Museum
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Whites City: Apache Canyon Trading Post
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Whites City: Carlsbad Caverns
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Whites City: Ten-Foot-Tall Green Aliens
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Alamogordo: Atari Video Game Burial Grounds (Secret)
- Alamogordo: Auto Parts Dinosaur
- Alamogordo: Mad Max Car
- Albuquerque: Chainsaw-Carved Chainsaw Lumberjack
- Albuquerque: Route 66 - Aztec Motel
- Albuquerque: UFO Crashed at Coffee Shop
- Carlsbad: The Gargoyles Motel
- Gallup: Navajo Travel Indian Statue
- Grants: Uranium Cafe
- Lake Arthur: Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla
- Los Alamos: The Black Hole: Atomic Surplus Store
- Madrid: The Bone Zone
- Northwest Chaves: UFO Crashed Here Sign
- Ojo Caliente: Los Nidos Art Caves
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Roadforks: Ghost Town of Steins
- Roswell: Alien Sno
- Roswell: Alien Zone II
- Roswell: Home Built Mini-Saucer #2
- Roswell: Home Built Mini-Saucer #3
- Roswell: R2D2 Post Office Box
- Roswell: Roswell Walmart Alien Decorations
- Roswell: Starchild Flying Saucer
- Roswell: Stealth Saucer on Wheels
- Ruidoso Downs: Fox Cave: Muffler Man
- Santa Fe: Dark Bird Palace: Shed of Folk Art
- Santa Fe: Elephants and Other Sculptures
- Santa Fe: Harrel House Bug Museum
- Santa Fe: Prairie Dog Palace
- Santa Fe: Stonefridge
- Tent Rocks: Tent Rocks
- Tijeras: Route 66 Musical Road
- Truth or Consequences: Truth or Consequences Car Museum
- Tucumcari: Irrigation Pipe Cactus
- Tucumcari: Obama's Presidential Library (Unauthorized)
- Whites City: Million Dollar Museum