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Earthships
The fascinating community of Earthships is a cluster of self-sustaining, environmentally savvy houses built with recycled materials, that are completely off the grid. You can also stay overnight in one.
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Harwood Foundation Museum
Housed in a historic mid-19th-century adobe compound, the Harwood Foundation features paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and photography by northern New Mexico artists, both historical and contemporary.
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Kit Carson Home & Museum
The current owner will give you a tour of this recently spiffed-up 1825 adobe, explaining Kit Carson's skills in shooting, diplomacy and linguistics. Turns out Carson was fluent in Spanish, English and at least 10 Native tongues.
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Millicent Rogers Museum
The Millicent Rogers Museum, is filled with pottery, jewelry, baskets and textiles, and has one of the best collections of Native American and Spanish-colonial art in the US.
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Rio Grande Gorge Bridge
At 650ft above the Rio Grande, the steel Rio Grande Gorge Bridge is the second-highest suspension bridge in the US; the view down is eye-popping.
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San Francisco de Asís Church
Four miles south of Taos in Ranchos de Taos, the oft-photographed San Francisco de Asís Church was built in the mid-18th century but didn't open until 1815. It's been memorialized in numerous Georgia O'Keeffe paintings and Edward Weston photographs.
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Taos Historic Museums
Taos Historic Museums runs two great houses: the Blumenschein Home, which houses spectacular art, and the Martínez Hacienda which is a colonial trader's former home.
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Taos Pueblo
One of the most photographed destinations in New Mexico and continuously inhabited for more than a thousand years, this quintessential example of Pueblo Revival architecture is a must-see for anyone interested in Native American life, history and culture.
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