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With its carved surfaces, stained coloration and designs rooted in the Spanish Colonial tradition, Works Progress Administration (WPA) furniture is among the most visible vestiges of the New Deal in New Mexico.

The floor plan of the Tesuque, New Mexico, residence designed by Jon Dick of Archaeo Architects resembles a computer circuit board with an interwoven network of circles, squares and triangles.

Asian aesthetics and decor have long been a part of Santa Fe’s history, and The Inn of the Five Graces pays homage to that tradition not only with its name but with an assortment of textiles, furniture and architectural features that have found their way into the New Mexico hotel from the far corners of the world.

Americans enjoy some of the safest drinking water in the world, but quality varies widely, and it’s surprisingly tough to find out definitively which cities serve the good stuff and which do not.

It’s 5:30 a.m. on the first day of Santa Fe’s Indian Market, and as artists set up their booths, shadows cast by the headlights of parked trucks and cars are projected like silent movies onto the plaza. If your breath is visible in the crisp morning air, you’re on time for the largest Native American art show in the world.

Quiçama National Park in Angola used to have more than 4,000 elephants, 6,000 forest buffaloes, and numerous other wildlife, but it was all destroyed.

It’s no wonder that the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia has produced some of the world’s best mountaineers: You can’t travel north of the country’s capital, Ljubljana, without butting up against some of Europe’s most precipitous ranges.

With 1.8 million American acres and counting, Ted Turner governs a slice of the U.S. bigger than the state of Delaware.