You’ll see the major sights of the city along this driving route, including the Pecos Flume (listed in Ripley’s Believe it or Not as the river that crosses itself.)

Originally built of wood in 1890, a concrete flume replaced the wooden structure after it was washed away in a 1902 flood. At the time of its 1903 construction, it was the largest concrete structure in the world.

Built before 1890 as the headquarters for an extensive ranch. Mr. Eddy’s vision resulted in the establishment of Carlsbad, the irrigation system and the railroad.

WIPP isolates the nation’s defense-generated transuranic nuclear waste inside a 2,000-foot-thick salt formation.