The Palace of the Governors at the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe is the oldest continuously used public building constructed by Europeans in the continental United States, built starting in 1610 by Spanish governor Pedro de Peralta as the seat of colonial government on the north side of the historic Santa Fe Plaza.
Sumner Lake State Park sits on the eastern plains of New Mexico, about 8 miles northwest of Fort Sumner in De Baca County, centered around a 4,500-acre reservoir formed by Sumner Dam on the Pecos River in 1939.
Chimayo in northern New Mexico is a small unincorporated village straddling Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties about 25 miles north of Santa Fe in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains foothills along the High Road to Taos Scenic Byway, long inhabited by Pueblo Indians since the 12th century before Spanish settlers arrived in the late 1600s.
The High Noon Restaurant and Saloon in Albuquerque, New Mexico, opened in 1974 in a historic adobe building originally constructed between 1750 and 1785.
The Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, preserves the art of the American Southwest and 400 years of the city's history through permanent exhibits like Common Ground showcasing New Mexico art and Only in Albuquerque highlighting colonial artifacts, maps, conquistador armor, weavings, and cultural milestones.
The natural entrance of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico was formed by surface erosion and collapse over the past few million years, creating a large opening into a limestone cave system.
Cafe Pasqual's in Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded in 1979 by Katharine Kagel, is a celebrated Southwestern restaurant located just south of the Santa Fe Plaza in a historic adobe building built in 1905.
Bluewater Lake State Park spans 2,500 acres at 7,400 feet elevation in the Zuni Mountains of northwestern New Mexico, 25 miles west of Grants along I-40 near Prewitt.
Storrie Lake State Park lies 4 miles north of Las Vegas, New Mexico, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at 6,607 feet elevation, covering 81 acres around a 1,100-acre reservoir created by a 1,400-foot earthen dam built starting in 1916.
Tse Bit A i Shopping Center in Shiprock, New Mexico, serves as a vibrant local commerce and cultural hub for the Navajo Nation, offering a range of shops, eateries, and services that highlight indigenous businesses and community life.
Conchas Lake State Park, northwest of Tucumcari in northeastern New Mexico, surrounds one of the state's largest reservoirs formed by the 1939 Conchas Dam on the Canadian River, spanning 25 miles with secluded coves, canyons, and sandy beaches.
City of Rocks State Park spans one square mile in the Mimbres River Valley of southwestern New Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert at 5,200 feet elevation, halfway between Deming and Silver City off US 180 and NM 61.
Oasis State Park is a 193-acre oasis in the Llano Estacado plains of eastern New Mexico, located 7 miles north of Portales in Roosevelt County at 4,058 feet elevation amid cottonwood trees, shifting sand dunes, and a small fishing lake stocked with catfish and trout.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened in 1997 to celebrate the life and work of the pioneering American modernist painter known for her iconic depictions of the Southwest landscape and flowers.
Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, opened in 2005 as the world's premier facility dedicated to the history, science, art, and sport of ballooning and lighter-than-air flight, named after local pioneers Ben Abruzzo and Maxie Anderson who achieved the first transatlantic balloon crossing in 1978 aboard Double Eagle II.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in southwestern New Mexico preserves five natural caves in Cliff Dweller Canyon where Mogollon people built about 40 rooms using stone masonry and adobe mortar between 1275 and 1300 AD, during a period of drought when clans of 40-60 sought shelter amid the Gila Wilderness.
Bottomless Lakes State Park, New Mexico's first state park established in 1933, features eight deep sinkhole lakes (17-90 feet) with striking greenish-blue waters along the Pecos River escarpment, 15 miles southeast of Roswell amid red bluffs and desert terrain.
