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NM A Big Pile of Bones, about 2 city blocks, outside Velarde, NM

NM A Deming Duck

NM Concrete Yard Art, Clayton, NM  More Info

NM A Hillsboro Apple

NM An F-117 Stealth Fighter

NM Any UFO Museum in Roswell, extra point for shot of live alien, Rosewell,NM

NM Billy the Kids Grave, and much more. Old Fort Sumner, Fort Sumner, NM More Info

NM Carlsbad Caverns National Monument, Carlsbad, NM

NM Cinematic Town of  Garfield, NM

NM Dinosaur tracks, Clayton, NM

NM Dog Canyon State Park,Alamogordo, NM

NM Edible Town of Pie Town,NM.

NM El Santuario de Chimayo, The lords of America.  More Info

NM Fridge Henge?  Some guy building a Stone Henge out of refrigerators, Santa Fee,NM

NM Geographic Center of the Lower 48 States, near Lebanon, KS

NM Geronimo Springs Museum, NM

NM Indian Town of Apache,NM

NM Indian Town of Puma, NM.

NM Merchant Marine Memorial, Fort Stanton, NM (1,000 miles from any water)NM

NM Monument Rocks - Gove County, KS

NM Shakespeare Ghost Town,Lordsburg,NM

NM Smoky the Bear's Grave, Captain NM.

NM The only vehicle tunnel in the state of New Mexico.   You find it

NM The Oro Grande National Forest NM

NM Town of Continental Divide,NM

NM The Owl Cafe, San Antonio, NM

NM The Gila Dwellings, Silver City, NM

NM The Tin Head Stone Cemetery, Chilili, NM More info

NM The Shaffer Hotel, Mountainair, NM  More Info


NM Trinity Site (only open 1st Saturday April & October), east of Socorro, NM
Socorro, NM

NM The Very Large Array, (middle of nowhere, west of Magdalena, NM

NM  Town of Truth or Consequences, NM

NM White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, NM

NM Yucca Drive-In theater sign, Sante Fe, NM  More Info

NM Cinematic Town of : Garfield, NM:.

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Weird Museums

NM International U. F. O. Museum & Research center,Roswell, NM

NM The National Atomic Museum,Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM

NM The Potato Museum, Albuquerque, NM

NM National Atomic Museum,Albuquerque, NM

NM International Space hall of Fame,Alamogordo, NM

NM Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM

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Haunted Places

Albuquerque -  Albuquerque Press Club - the ghost of "Mrs. M" appears at the bar.

Albuquerque - Luna-Otero Mansion - the ghost of Josefita Otero has appeared in numerous rooms here.

Las Cruces - Peppers Restaurant -   a misty apparition has been seen here.

Santa Fe - La Fonda Hotel - haunted by a salesman who had lost all his money playing cards here.

Santa Fe - La Posada Hotel - the ghost of Julie Stabb is seen on the 2nd floor.

Cimarron - St. James Hotel - Rm.17 is haunted by a man that was killed after winning rights to the hotel in a poker game.   The hotel is also haunted by a female ghost in what is now called "Mary's Room."  In that particular room there is a strong odor of perfume.   Numerous events have occured in that hotel, you might want to check into it.   "Unsolved Mysteries" had a special on it at one time.  Also, the hotel is haunted by a strange, short man w/ pockmarks called "the Imp."

Santa Fe - The Heritage Home - An old turn-of-the-century site where criminals were hung from the large cottonwood in front of the building.  The tree's limbs have long since been cut down, however the shadows of the limbs are still casting on moon-lit nights.

Mesillia -  Double Eagle Restaurant - ghosts have been photographed and witnessed  here .

The Lodge at Cloudcroft
Said to be haunted by a redheaded ghost by the name of Rebecca. frequents the dining room. There is also the spirit of a chambermaid in her 20s or 30s who was murdered by a jealous lover and buried somewhere in the basement.

Santa Fe-La Fonda Hotel
The present dining room in this lovely old hotel is situated exactly over an old well, in which a man leapt to his death over 100 years ago. He had lost his company's money gambling. Guests in the dining room sometimes report seeing a man walk to the center of the room and then jump as if into an invisible hole and simply disappear.

Santa Fe -Grant Corner Inn
Rooms 4 and 8 and the hallway on the second floor are the primary haunting sites in this three- story house built in 1905. Objects falling on the floor, footsteps, and slamming doors are among the usual fare. There is also a grayish figure that appears in the hallway.

Mesilla
An aristocratic residence on the plaza was built in 1849. Here, a petite Spanish maid, Inez, was stabbed to death by the mother, Senora Maese, of her lover, Armando. The son was stabbed himself and died just days later. The Carlotta Room, the scene of the tragedy, has a reputation for cold spots, a woman's laughter, the apparition of a small woman in black skirt and white blouse, and the strong scent of perfume.

CORRALES-Rancho De Corrales
A sad tale of jealousy and revenge sums up the history of this site. The Emberto family lived here in the late 1800s. In 1898, the son killed his father's mistress. Dad then shot his wife (the boy's mother) for starting the trouble. In all the confusion, Dad himself was shot and killed. It seems the spirits of the Embertos are still going at each other today.

Deming -Greensands-
Old factory in the desert, you can hear screams from an abandoned house 50 yards away.   Shadowy figures, and a little girl holding a baby doll.

Bayard -Chino Mines Creek-
There is an old lady seen in the creek crying and yelling for her child.  A flood had supposedly gone through this woman's home and washed her son away.  She is still heard and seen in the area calling for her son.

Albuquerque-Kimo Theater, Central Ave., NW-
A young boy was killed backstage when a hot water pipe burst from the theater's boiler. The tradition is to place a donut backstage before opening night of any performance so things go right, i.e. lighting, sound, etc. There are two other entities that seem to be much older than the young boy. The theater's opening night was in fall of 1927. These entities seem to be from that era, where as the boy is more contemporary.

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Chilili,: In the tiny town of Chilili, New Mexico, about an hour southwest of Albuquerque (west on I-40 to Tijeras, and then south on Highway 14), there is a cemetery in which the dozens of tombstones and memorial plaques have been created entirely of large sheets of tin, mounted on marble. This work was all accomplished by one man, Horace McAfee, who has since passed on but is still venerated by the locals as a great artist. What makes this cemetery so remarkable is that all the wording on the tin was punched out laboriously with a nail, so that the holes form the letters. Some of the memorials are quite extensive, and there are one or two huge sheets that contain McAfee's poetic musings on the nature of the afterlife -- twenty or thirty lines in length. McAfee also erected some large tin cutouts of angels watching over the cemetery

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This is where the career of Billy the Kid came to its end. He had escaped from jail in April, 1881 and was hiding out at the home of his friend, Peter Maxwell. The family was one of the wealthiest in New Mexico and had built a 20-room home on the grounds of a former U.A. Army fort. Sheriff Pat Garrett, knowing that Maxwell and Billy had been on the same side in the range wars here, tracked him to the home and ambushed him in a darkened bedroom. The Kid is buried in back of the museum, which also contains exhibits on the history of the fort. Fort Sumner was where the Navajo were foribly interned for six years during the Civil War before being allowed to return to their reservation lands in 1868.


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Sante Fe, NM You're lacking probably the most astonishing roadside site in New Mexico. It's the Yucca Drive-In theater sign out on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe. If you don't know what a YUCCA is, it's a southwestern desert plant with long spiky leaves at the base in the shape of a big ball, and it has a long stalk that is topped off by white flowers in kind of a bulbous, eliptical shape.

This thing is HUGE! At least 50 ft. tall. I was working at the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper a few years ago, and a co-worker there who happened to be a gay remarked that she and her girlfriend call the place the "Penis Drive-In," because this big sign looks just like a big, uh, well you know, a big. . . She said it really gives them the jitters every time they drive past it.

                                                                             

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The Shaffer Hotel was built by Clem "Pop" Shaffer in 1923, after his blacksmith shop burned. The hotel served railroad travelers and workers. Shaffer decorated the building - most notably the interior & exterior of the dining room - with graphics inspired by Native American designs. Shaffer also built the furniture and fireplaces, as well as a concrete fence to the west of the building

 

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Somewhere around 1810, a Chimayo friar was performing penances when he saw a light bursting from a hillside. Digging, he found a crucifix, quickly dubbed the miraculous crucifix of Our Lord of Esquipulas. A local priest brought the crucifix to Santa Cruz, but three times it disappeared and was later found back in its hole. By the third time, everyone understood that El Senor de Esquipulas wanted to remain in Chimayo, and so a small chapel was built on the site. Then the miraculous healings began. These grew so numerous that the chapel had to be replaced by the larger, current Chimayo Shrine -- an adobe mission -- in 1816.

El Santuario de Chimayo is now known (at least locally) as the "Lourdes of America." The crucifix still resides on the chapel alter, but for some reason its curative powers have been overshadowed by El Posito, the "sacred sand pit" from which it sprang, which gapes unheavenly behind the main altar. Over 300,000 people visit this dustbin o' heaven every year.

The Prayer Room, which is located in the sacristy of the church (next to the pit), is filled with discarded crutches, braces, and scary, hand-made shrines that look more voo-doo than Catholic. Also on site here is a restaurant, a burrito stand, and gift shop that sells everything from souvenir t-shirts to refrigerator magnets. But no miracle sand-in-a-bag -- at least not yet.

Chimayo is about 40 miles northwest of Santa Fe in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. The town is nothing more than a dusty junkyard clinging to both sides of the road, which is frequently washed out during thunderstorms and is a favorite speed trap for the local policia. Apparently, the donations left at the Shrine miraculously vanish before they reach the local economy.

(El Santuario de Chimayo: Intersection of Hwys. 76 & 520, then south one mile)