New Mexico - Travel, Western United States - Travel Essays & Descriptions, Curiosities and Wonders
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Overview
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Land of Enchantment has to offer!Whether you’re a born-and-raised New Mexican, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Mexico Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as it introduces you to the most fascinating characters in the Spanish State, and takes you places you never could have imagined—some of them right around the corner! Among the stimulating sights and spectacles you’ll find inside:
• Roswell’s International UFO Museum and UFO Festival
• The mysterious spiral staircase of the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe
• The plaque marking the grave of Ham, the world’s first space chimp, in front of the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo
• Gordon McMath’s sculptures made from old washing machines, car parts, gizmos, and whatchamacallits—on display in Mountainair
• The painted (aluminum) burros in Carrizozo's annual Burro Serenade and Auction
Synopsis
Whether you’re a born-and-raised New Mexican, a recent transplant, or just passing through, New Mexico Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as it introduces you to the most fascinating characters in the Spanish State, and takes you places you never could have imagined—some of them right around the corner!
Book Details
Published
January 1, 2009
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780762746705