Skip to Main Content

Whites City, New Mexico: Million Dollar Museum (Gone)

RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report

Directions:
Jct of US 62 and Hwy 7 (Carlsbad Caverns Hwy).
Hours:
Closed, contents auctioned.
Status:
Gone

Display at the Million Dollar Museum.

Million Dollar Museum

A large basement museum displays a mixture of the boring and the amazing -- including an alien baby!

Roadsideamerica.com Report...
Whites City, New Mexico - Summer Sale! Buy Your Own Museum!
Million Dollar Museum: It's not often that we have a chance to buy pieces of a beloved roadside attraction. It's rarer still that we have the opportunity to buy not only the attraction itself, but the entire town that surrounded it. [07/10/2008] Complete Story...

Visitor Tips and News About Million Dollar Museum

Reports and tips from RoadsideAmerica.com visitors and Roadside America mobile tipsters. Some tips may not be verified. Submit your own tip.

Basket people skulls.

Million Dollar Museum - Closed

The auction company where I work recently received a flyer indicating that White's City as well as the contents of the Million Dollar Museum will be up for auction in July. Unfortunately for the museum, it seems as though its contents are slated to be auctioned off separately. Higgenbotham Auctioneers will be conducting the sale and details are listed on their website.

[T.L. Amos, 07/04/2008]

The alien baby -- taken by the FBI?

Million Dollar Museum

The Museum is still full of most of its odd stuff, but sadly the mummies and alien babies have been abducted. I asked the woman at the desk about them and she said that the FBI had come a couple of months ago and taken them for DNA testing. She did not sound hopeful about their return to the museum.

[Lex Thompson, 12/24/2007]
Million Dollar Museum

White's City Million Dollar Museum has to be one of the oddest places in America - my wife and I took a tour of it while we camped next door (the next day we went to Carlsbad Caverns, just up the road). The museum is comprised of a multitude of curious and strange collections (one is a room covered - ceiling, walls, and floor (under glass) with a collection of bulls horns - still another is a huge collection of miniatures - and that is just the beginning!). It took us a couple of hours to walk through it, for a modest fee (IIRC).

[Andrew L. Ayers, 12/24/2001]

Latest Tips Across Roadside America

Catch up on the latest discoveries from the road.

Explore Thousands of Oddball Tourist Attractions!

Unique destinations in the U.S. and Canada are our special obsession. Use our attraction recommendation and maps to plan your next road trip.

My Sights

My Sights on Roadside America

Create Your Own Bizarre Road Trips! ...Try My Sights

Mobile Apps

Roadside America app: iPhone, iPad Roadside America app for iPhone, iPad. On-route maps, 1,000s of photos, special research targets! ...More

Roadside Presidents app: iPhone, iPad Roadside Presidents app for iPhone, iPad. POTUS landmarks, oddities. ...More

New Mexico Latest Tips and Stories

Latest Visitor Tips

Sight of the Week

Sight of the Week

Easter Island Moai in America (Mar 25-31, 2024)

SotW Archive

USA and Canada Tips and Stories

More Sightings