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 - Abiquiu: Echo Amphitheater
- Alamogordo: Air Duct Man
- Alamogordo: Grave of Ham the Astrochimp
- Alamogordo: Largest Glowing Heart
- Alamogordo: Mac Tonight: Welcome to Alamogordo
- Alamogordo: New Mexico Museum of Space History
- Alamogordo: Scrap Metal Roadrunner
- Alamogordo: Shroud Exhibit and Museum
- Alamogordo: Toy Train Depot
- Alamogordo: VW Spider
- Alamogordo: White Sands: Alien Dunescape
- Alamogordo: World's Largest Pistachio
- Albuquerque: 66 Diner and Wall o' Signs
- Albuquerque: Atomic Cannon
- Albuquerque: Big Cowboy, Upper Half
- Albuquerque: Breaking Bad Meth Candy
- Albuquerque: Breaking Bad Store
- Albuquerque: Bug House - Spaceship House
- Albuquerque: Center of Albuquerque 1912
- Albuquerque: Center of Albuquerque 2012
- Albuquerque: Center of the Universe
- Albuquerque: Chevy on a Stick
- Albuquerque: Cottonwood Madonna - Virgin of the Tree
- Albuquerque: Dog House Drive-In
- Albuquerque: Giant Books
- 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: Longest Aerial Tramway in the U.S.
- Albuquerque: Madonna of the Trail
- Albuquerque: Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong Murals
- Albuquerque: Meteorite Museum
- Albuquerque: Muffler Man: Lumberjack Mutant
- Albuquerque: National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
- Albuquerque: Owl Cafe
- Albuquerque: Rattlesnake Museum
- Albuquerque: Self Storage Dinosaur
- Albuquerque: Shoe Tree, High Heel Variant
- Albuquerque: Spray Foam Roadrunner
- Albuquerque: Sticker Wall
- Albuquerque: Telephone Museum of New Mexico: JFK Teletype
- Albuquerque: Tin Man, Other Scrap Art
- Albuquerque: Tombstone of Breaking Bad's Walter White
- Albuquerque: Walter and Skylar White's House - Breaking Bad
- Albuquerque: X-Ray Museum
- Albuquerque: Yesteryear Travel: Fashion Horizons
- Alcalde: Boondoggle Conquistador Visitor Center
- Angel Fire: New Mexico Vietnam Memorial
- Artesia: ABO Elementary School and Fallout Shelter
- Artesia: Large Old West Statues
- Artesia: The Derrick Floor
- Aztec: Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village
- Aztec: Skewered Car On a Pole
- Aztec: UFO Crashed Here
- Belen: Drive-In Teen Burger
- Candy Kitchen: Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary
- Capitan: Smokey Bear Museum And Grave
- Capulin: Drive to Rim of Volcano
- Carlsbad: Carlsbad Caverns Discovered - Statue
- Carlsbad: Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
- Carrizozo: Valley of Fires Lava Fields
- Chaparral: World's Largest Firecracker
- Chilili: Tin Sheet Tombstones
- Chimayo: El Santuario de Chimayo Shrine
- Chimayo: LowLow's Lowrider Art
- Chloride: Ghost Town Pioneer Store Museum
- Cimarron: Lucien Maxwell Statue
- Cimarron: Old Aztec Mill Museum
- Clayton: Dinosaur Statues
- Clayton: Undulating Dragon
- Clovis: Clovis Man: America's Oldest Inhabitant
- Clovis: Norman and Vi Petty Rock 'n' Roll Museum
- Columbus: U.S. Invaded Here
- Continental Divide: Continental Divide Trading Post
- Deming: Bowlin's Akela Flats
- Deming: Cabinetlandia
- Deming: Unsettling Bataan Death March Monument
- Dulce: Project Gasbuggy Atomic Explosion Site
- 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 Killed Here
- Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid Museum and Replica Grave
- Fort Sumner: Billy the Kid's Caged Grave
- 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: Muffler Man - "Dude Man"
- Gallup: The Devil's Highway: Route 666
- Gallup: Tow Truck Atop Tower
- Gallup: We The People Park
- Glenrio: Russell's Travel Center Museum
- Golden: Bottle House
- Grants: Ice Cave and Bandera Volcano
- Grants: Replica Uranium Mine
- Grants: Route 66 Neon Drive-Thru
- Hatch: Big Pink Pig
- Hatch: Muffler Man: Soda Jerk
- Hatch: RV Muffler Man
- Hatch: Sparky's Trading Post
- Hatch: Teako's Giants of Hatch
- High Rolls: Apple Boy
- Hobbs: Flying Fortress of the Plains
- Jal: Jal Lake, Metal Cattle Drive Sculpture
- Lake Sumner: One Man's Privately-Built Rest Area
- Las Cruces: Bataan Death March Statue and Walkway
- Las Cruces: Big Daddy - Armless Muffler Man
- Las Cruces: El Toro, Flea Market Bull
- Las Cruces: Pat Garrett Killed Here
- Las Cruces: Pat Garrett Murder Site Sign
- Las Cruces: Pat Garrett's Grave
- Las Cruces: Pink Spotted Elephant
- Las Cruces: Propane Powered Rocket
- Las Cruces: Recycled Roadrunner
- Las Cruces: Toth-Carved Big Indian Head
- Las Cruces: World's Largest Chile Pepper
- Las Vegas: Bobby Valdez Sculpture Garden
- Las Vegas: Calumet Say Howdy: Red Dawn Wall Mural
- Las Vegas: Plaza Hotel: No Country For Old Men
- Lincoln: Billy the Kid Jailbreak: Bullet Hole, Death Plaques
- Lordsburg: Fraggle Rock
- Lordsburg: Shakespeare Ghost Town
- Los Alamos: Atom Bomb Backpack
- Los Alamos: JFK Was Here Gateway
- Loving: Project Gnome Atomic Explosion Site
- Madrid: Cattle Crossing UFO Signs
- Madrid: Connie's Photo Park
- 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
- Milan: Aviation Heritage Museum
- Moriarty: Lewis Antique Auto and Toy Museum
- Moriarty: Memorial of Perpetual Tears
- Moriarty: Route 66 License Plate Mural
- Moriarty: Soaring Museum - Gliders
- Ohkay Owingeh: Cattle Crossing UFO Sign
- Organ: Space Murals Museum
- Portales: Ancient Bones Dig Site
- Portales: Personal Collection of Windmills
- Portales: Pioneer Dugout Replica
- Queen: Flying Paper Boy of the Guadalupes
- Quemado: The Lightning Field
- Ranchos de Taos: Rio Grande Gorge Bridge: Pedestrian Thrills
- Raton: RoboCop Miner Statue
- Rio Puerco: Route 66 Casino - Mother Road Slots
- Rodeo: World's Largest Rattlesnake Rattle
- Roswell: Afrikacorps POW Iron Cross
- Roswell: Alien "Welcome to Roswell" Art
- Roswell: Alien Apex Resort (Proposed)
- Roswell: Alien Couple Carved from Stumps
- Roswell: Alien Doughnut Overlord
- Roswell: Alien Print Shop Mural
- Roswell: Alien Riding Roadrunner
- Roswell: Alien Streetlights of Roswell
- Roswell: Alien Zone: Area 51
- Roswell: Aliens on Senior Center Tree Trunk
- Roswell: Flying Saucer McDonald's
- Roswell: Home Built Mini-Saucer
- Roswell: International UFO Museum
- Roswell: Invasion Station
- Roswell: Motel Saucer and Alien
- Roswell: Pizza Chain Space Alien
- Roswell: Robert Goddard Statue and Rocket
- Roswell: Roswell Alien Attraction Autopsy
- Roswell: Roswell UFO Spacewalk
- Roswell: Roswell Visitor Center: Pose With Aliens
- Roswell: Roswell Welcome Sign: Saucer and Cows
- Roswell: Spaceport Roswell
- Roswell: Tree of Knowledge
- Roswell: We Believe! Mural
- Roswell: Welcome Alien Statue
- Ruidoso Downs: Fox Cave: Billy the Kid, Zombie Hands
- Ruidoso Downs: Galloping Horse Statues
- Ruidoso: Putting Green Grave
- Sandia Park: Tinkertown
- Santa Clara: Land of Cibola - Seven Cities of Gold
- Santa Fe: 30-Foot-Tall Robot, Giant Spider
- Santa Fe: Big Dog Swing
- Santa Fe: Big Dynamite and Gold Golf Ball
- Santa Fe: Big Molecule of the Cognition Enhancer
- Santa Fe: Burro Alley
- Santa Fe: Camel Rock
- Santa Fe: Carved Archangels
- Santa Fe: Ethyl, Giant Recycled Blue Whale
- Santa Fe: Folk Art All Mixed Together
- Santa Fe: Hand Mail Box
- Santa Fe: House of Eternal Return
- Santa Fe: Large Indian Head
- Santa Fe: Life-size Brontosaurus Family
- Santa Fe: Miraculous Gravity-Defying Staircase
- Santa Fe: Oldest Church in the U.S.
- Santa Fe: Oldest House in the U.S.
- Santa Fe: The Burning of Zozobra
- Santa Rosa: Route 66 Auto Museum
- Santa Rosa: The Blue Hole
- Santa Teresa: Four Atomic Bombs
- Separ: Continental Divide Store and Teepee
- Shiprock: Four Corners USA
- Socorro: Chunk of "Jumbo" From First A-Bomb Blast
- Socorro: New Mexico's Other UFO Landing Site
- Socorro: Recycled Parts Flying Saucer
- Socorro: The Very Large Array
- Springer: New Mexico's Electric Chair
- Sunland Park: Sierra de Cristo Rey, Christ of the Rockies
- Sunspot: National Solar Observatory
- Taos: Earthship Biotecture Houses
- Taos: Large Metal Glasses
- Tatum: Metal Art Town
- Three Rivers: Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
- Three Rivers: Three Rivers Trading Post
- Tinnie: Tubular Art
- Truchas: Motorcycle Tombstones
- Truth or Consequences: Memorial to Drowned Boy Scouts
- Truth or Consequences: Mini-Vietnam Wall and Statue of Liberty
- Truth or Consequences: Ralph Edwards Room and Wax Geronimo
- Truth or Consequences: Spaceport America Tour
- Tucumcari: Blue Swallow Motel: Route 66
- Tucumcari: Dinosaur Skeletons in Bronze
- Tucumcari: La Cita Sombrero
- Tucumcari: Roadrunner Lodge: Magic Fingers
- Tucumcari: Route 66 Monument
- Tucumcari: Tee Pee Curios on Route 66
- Vanderwagen: Native American Basket Satellite Dishes
- Vaughn: Cowboy Rukus: Giant Cowboy Cutouts
- White Rock: Prehistoric Ruins Just off the Highway
- White Sands: Father and Son Vanished Here
- White Sands: Nike Missile Rest Stop
- White Sands: Trinity Atomic Test Site
- White Sands: White Sands Rocket Garden and Museum
- Whites City: Apache Canyon Trading Post
- Whites City: Carlsbad Caverns
- 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
- 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
