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AlbuCreepy Downtown Ghost Walk-A New Mexico True Experience
Yes, it's a scare-filled stroll through the dark alleys and even darker historical tidbits of Albuquerque.
Professional guides from AT&SF (Albuquerque Tourism & Sightseeing Factory) lead the way with visits to some of downtown's best haunts.
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Known as the heart of New Mexico, Albuquerque has grown to be the largest city in the state. Filled with diverse culture, rich history and breathtaking landscapes. It provides visitors with the true taste of the southwest. With an award winning climate and year around sunshine, Albuquerque is the perfect destination for outdoor activities. Enjoy hiking, horseback riding or mountain biking at the Sandia Foothills open space. Where the La Luz Trail Head which offers beautiful panoramic views of mountains, trees and the vast desert terrain. Or enjoy a stroll at the ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden which offers 36 acres of gardens, waterfalls, ponds and more. Are you afraid of heights? Face your fears and take an exhilarating balloon ride in the hot air balloon capital of the nation or hang out at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The largest hot air balloon festival in the world. While you're enjoying the warm weather and gentle breeze from the spectacular Sandia Mountains, be sure to check out the Hinkle Family Fun Center, The Rio Grande Zoo, Tingley Beach and many other attractions for some family fun in the sun. Whether you're in historic districts like Old Town, or urban districts like ABQ Uptown, you're sure to find great food, affordable shopping, and a diverse range of arts and entertainment. Albuquerque offers a wide range of museums and art centers including The World's Largest Rattlesnake Museum, The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Nob Hill Art Gallery and much more; not to mention its various year-round festivals such as: The New Mexico State Fair, The National Fiery Foods and BBQ Show and The Go Downtown Arts Festival. In the mood to party? Albuquerque’s got you covered! Enjoy a cocktail at the One Up Elevated Lounge, or the Andaluz Hotel Ibiza Rooftop and catch a magnificent view of the city's eastern skyline and mountain tops; or get your dance on at the Lotus Nightclub & VIP Ultra Lounge for some of the hottest DJs, dance music and light shows like no other. It’s truly a nightlife experience you won't want to miss. Come immerse yourself in rich culture, brilliant weather and the vast entertainment Albuquerque has to offer, the true southwest awaits you.
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Albuquerque old town area, used to be a center area, founded by Governor Francisco Valdes in the early 18th century. Now, it becomes one of tourist main spot in Albuquerque City, New Mexico.
On the north side of the plaza is the San Felipe de Neri Church, the oldest building in the city, which was built in 1793.
The Old Town Plaza is surrounded by 10 historic buildings which have since been converted into the restaurants, art galleries and shops that comprise Old Town today.
As a general rule, most businesses are open:
Monday through Saturday from 10:00am to 8:00pm
Sundays from 11:00am to 7:00pm
Most Restaurants seat until 9:00pm
There are many things to do in the area other than shopping. The old historic San Felipe de Neri Church is usually open to visitors. There are five museums located within walking distance to the Old Town area: The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, The Turquoise Museum, The Rattlesnake Museum as well as Explora Science Center. There are several guided historical tours that you can take at any time of day, or for brave souls, a nightly ghost tour.
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Shakespeare is a ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States. It is currently part of a privately owned ranch, sometimes open to tourists. The entire community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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Places to see in ( Albuquerque - USA )
Places to see in ( Albuquerque - USA )
Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city, sits in the high desert. Its modern Downtown core contrasts with Old Town Albuquerque, dating to the city’s 1706 founding as a Spanish colony. Old Town is filled with historic adobe buildings, such as San Felipe de Neri Church, 5 museums, and shops selling Native American handicrafts. Nearby, The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center traces the area’s tribal history.
Although it is the largest city in the state, Albuquerque is often overshadowed as a tourist destination by Santa Fe, 60 mi (97 km) to the north. But Albuquerque has a number of great attractions in its own right, with pleasant scenery, colorful history, and a spectacular hot-air balloon fiesta in the fall.
Albuquerque was founded in 1706 as a small Spanish settlement on the banks of the Rio Grande and was named for the Duke of Alburquerque (hence Albuquerque's nickname, The Duke City). In the 1880s the railroad came to town, and almost overnight a new city grew up around the train tracks a couple of miles away from the original settlement. This New Town became the hub of commerce for the state, and the city grew exponentially (eventually the New Town, which today is Downtown, and the original Old Town settlement were joined to become part of the same city).
Central Avenue is a principal east-west artery, running roughly parallel to I-40 and through Downtown just west of I-25 and past the University of New Mexico (UNM for short) just east of I-25.
The Heights are the eastern part of town closest to the Sandia Mountains. You may also hear reference to the Foothills, which are the most extreme eastern part of the city, right at the base of the mountains. Uptown is a business and shopping district located in the Heights at I-40 and Louisiana Blvd.
The North Valley and Los Ranchos de Albuquerque (technically a separate community from Albuquerque) encompass the area north of I-40 between I-25 and the river. The South Valley is the area west of I-25 south of downtown. The Westside is all the suburban neighborhoods on the western side of the river. Rio Rancho, a separate community from Albuquerque, is the metro area's largest suburb and can be considered a northern extension of the Westside.
A lot to see in Albuquerque such as :
Petroglyph National Monument
Sandia Peak Tramway
ABQ BioPark
Old Town Albuquerque
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
Albuquerque Museum
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Cibola National Forest
ABQ BioPark - Botanic Garden
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Downtown Albuquerque
Cliff's Amusement Park
Boca Negra Canyon
Tingley Beach
ABQ BioPark Aquarium
San Felipe de Neri Church
Rio Grande Nature Center State Park
Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum
Old Town
Rattlesnake Museum
La Luz Trail
Explora
National Hispanic Cultural Center
Kimo Theatre
Elena Gallegos Open Space
Sandia Peak Ski & Tram
Rio Grande Zoo
Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge
A Park Above
Old Town Plaza
Balloon Museum Drive Northeast
El Vado Motel
Paseo del Bosque Trail
Los Poblanos
History & GHOST Tours of Old Town
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Rinconada Canyon Trail
Hinkle Family Fun Center
Roosevelt Park
Musical Highway
Sandia Foothills Open Space
Historic Old Town
Turquoise Museum
Piedras Marcadas Canyon
Civic Plaza
New Mexico Steam Locomotive
Mariposa Basin Park
ABQ Surf n' Slide
Embudito Trail
( Albuquerque - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Albuquerque . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Albuquerque - USA
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Old Town Albuquerque New Mexico
In this episode I visit Old Town in Albuquerque New Mexico. Featured is the Rattlesnake Museum, and Rolling in Dough Bakery & Cafe.
Haunted New Mexico
Haunted New Mexico
Albuquerque: The Unknown
In May of 2007, Sony Pictures Imageworks announced the opening of a satellite facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico that could take advantage of tax incentives offered by the state government.
Once in motion, employees of all tenure, and from many parts of the world, began moving to Albuquerque. Most knew absolutely nothing about the area. This is the story of the first forty employees who took the leap, and how they have come to experience the city of Albuquerque, and New Mexico.
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Zombie - Fela Kuti
Say Hello - The New Law
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Cristal Sanchez
The Rileys
The Gorlas
Les Zeriounians
New Mexico Film Office:
Ann Lerner
Carrie Wells
Jesse Heron
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Roxanne Witt
Kimo Theater
Larry Parker
Rio Grande Zoo and Botanical Gardens
Albuquerque Aquarium
Terry Axline
Catherine Hubbard
Aerowest Helicopters, Inc
Don Ambabo
Terrence Wyman
Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Cultural Centre
Liza Wheeler
Matt Rembre
New Mexico State Fair
Peggy Durkin
ABQ Studios
Jim Luongo
Sandia Peak and Tramway
Debi Owen
La Quiche Bistro Parisien
Sabine Pasco
Bruno Barachin
New Mexico Rail Runner
Jay Faught
Ace Barber Shop
Gabriel Jaureguiberry
Nantucket Shoals
Nancy Chavez-Berg
The Sports Club
Victoria Giorbas
John Giorvas
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta
Teri Crocker
Access Control
Roy Lucero
William Epps
Hardware Pimps
Hector Barrera
Rachel Nicoll
Eric Wilson
Hardware Hoes
Cactus004
Angry Cat
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SONY Imageworks, Albuquerque:
Hector Barrera
Jean Paul Beaulieu
Jim Berney
Igor Choromanski
Shawn Clark
Jacques Daigle
Keridan Elliott
Nathan Eriksen
Derek Bro Esparza
Aaron Estrada
Patrick Finley
James Hanpadungvongs
Steve Hoogendyk
Rob House
Min Kang
Jeff Kim
Matt Kowaliszyn
Kevin Bubba Lombardi
Stephen Lunn
Albert Mason
Michael Miller
Rachel Nicoll
Kerry Nordquist
Cara Paul
Claus Pedersen
Donny Rausch
Jennifer Rojo
Jeff Schu
David Seager
Graham Silva
Jason Stansell
Glenn Sylvester
Kishore Vijay
Mark Wendell
Phan Winatrakoon
Eric Wilson
Bob Winter
Tyquane Wright
Bjorn Zipprich
Haunted Places in New Mexico
From Albuquerque to Rio Rancho, Las Cruces to Santa Fe, The Speakeasy presents our picks for the most haunted places in New Mexico. Enjoy!
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Albuquerque, New Mexico - Breaking Bad, Old Town, Nuclear Energy and Sandia Peak
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Today we explore Albuquerque, New Mexico. Being a Breaking Bad fan I started my day by visiting some of the show's locations, including Twister's also known as Los Pollos Hermanos, Walter Whites house, the Car Wash, and Hank's home. Then I went to Old Town, had lunch at the oldest house Church Street Cafe. Then I visited the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, and finally took a ride on the Sandia Peak Tramway.
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Haunted Places in New Mexico 2
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, and more! This is the second time we've covered the top 10 most haunted places in New Mexico... and with good reason. The Land of Enchantment is chalk full of creepy houses, spooky old inns, and ancient apparitions. Are there any haunts near you? Enjoy!
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Albuq NM Haunted Jail House Vid#2
ABQ NM Haunted Jail House
(vid clip #2 Of 2) even though it was to dark lighting for video but I can describe it for y'all there was a lot of people in there the actors dressed, in prison uniforms some were all bloody some were in prison cells banging on the cell bars and stuff an some were walking around scaring the girls of the tour group most of them look like some mean looking guys they hired some scary looking actors
Then the guide who was a in inmate uniform lead us all to a small room in the far back of the jail were they had a guy in the electric chair, that part you can kinda see on this video if you brighten your screen abit, it looked like a real old electric chair, they act execute him in front of us it was quite a act because when he acted as if he was being shocked to death he begin to act choking up an spit up fake blood was a trip to see that part...
then a girl actor came and told me no cameras so I stopped recording.
I didn't see No signs saying so walking
in so I'm sure its safe to upload, soon after that point we walked out.
Enjoy & Happy Halloween????
All in all it was very fun and interesting to see this old jail that was used a long time ago that was in the basement of a old court house in Albuquerque New Mexico
The Forgotten Towns of Route 66 in New Mexico
Day 5 of my Route 66 trip across America . Visited Tinkertown Museum , Musical Road and checked out lots of vintage neon motel signs and mixed in a lot of abandoned towns and bizarre twists and turns along the drive
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Old Main Haunting
Almost two decades after the deadly prison riots, could old souls still be doing time?
Weird Travels, New Mexico's visitors (Part 1)
Ghost stories in Old Town Albuquerque. I am one of the story tellers.
The History of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque’s history is filled with false starts, and foreboding events. It began with violence and deception, but has grown into a burgeoning and diverse city that dwarfs all others in New Mexico. Most people only know it as a place where Walter White made blue meth in Breaking Bad, or where Bug Bunny always took a wrong turn, but Albuquerque has a fascinating past that’s way more than I can even say here.
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George B. Anderson, History of New Mexico: Its Resources and People, 2 vols. (Los Angeles, Calif.: Pacific States Publishing Co, 1907).
Howard Bryan, Albuquerque Remembered (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006).
Howard Roberts Lamar, The Far Southwest, 1846-1912: A Territorial History, rev. ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970).
Joseph Sanchez, Robert Spude, and Arthur Gomez, New Mexico: A History (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014).
Marc Simmons, New Mexico: An Interpretive History (1977; reprint, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1988).
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Wiki: Albuquerque (/ˈælbəkɜːrki/ (About this soundlisten) AL-bə-kur-kee; Navajo: Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil [pèːʔèltíːl tɑ̀xsɪ̀nɪ̀l]; Eastern Keres: Arawageeki; Jemez: Vakêêke; Zuni: Alo:ke:k'ya; Jicarilla Apache: Gołgéeki'yé), abbreviated as ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the 32nd-most populous city in the United States. The city’s nicknames are The Duke City and Burque, both of which reference its 1706 founding as La Villa de Alburquerque in Nuevo México, as an outpost on El Camino Real for the Tiquex and Hispano towns in the area (such as Barelas, Corrales, Isleta Pueblo, Los Ranchos, and Sandia Pueblo).[5] Since the city’s founding, it has continued to be included on travel and trade routes including Route 66, Interstate 25, Interstate 40, and the Albuquerque International Sunport. The population census-estimated population of the city as 560,218 in 2018, it is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which has 915,927 residents as of July 2018.[6] Albuquerque's Metropolitan statistical area is the 60th-largest in the United States. The Albuquerque MSA population includes the cities of Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Los Lunas, Belen, South Valley, and Bosque Farms, and forms part of the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area, with a total population of 1,171,991 in 2016.
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Travel Guide New Mexico tm Ghost Towns New Mexico
The Land of Enchantment still echos with voices from its colorful past. These voices speak especially clearly from the ghost towns, mining camps, and little-known places that populate New Mexico's landscape.
New Mexico's story is rich with history, from the Ancient Puebloan Indians, to Spanish explorers, pioneers traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, and prospectors in the 19th century. These many folks left their footprints, not only along the many old trails in the Land of Enchantment, but also on the many ruins and ghost towns that remain.
Cuchillo, established by ranchers and farmers in the 1850s, was named for a nearby creek and a local Apache chief, Cuchillo Negro (Black Knife). Midway between the mines at Chloride and Winston and the railroad at Engle, it flourished as a stage stop and trade center from the 1880s to the 1930s. Charming original buildings still stand, including the Cuchillo Bar and Store, and San Jose Catholic Church, built in 1907
Chloride was founded in 1880. Englishman Harry Pye had discovered silver ore there in the late 1870s, and soon after Pye was killed by Apaches, word of the silver find got out. Despite the threat of Indian attacks Chloride grew to over 3,000 people. In its heyday it had nine saloons, a general store, a dry goods store, a millinery shop, a restaurant, a butcher shop, a candy store, a pharmacy, a Chinese laundry, a photography studio, a school, and two hotels. The Black Range newspaper was printed in Chloride from 1882 to 1896. Of the nearly 500 surveyed mines and prospect holes in the Apache Mining District, a dozen or so made big mines, including the Silver Monument, the U.S. Treasury, and the St. Cloud, which is still in operation, though not mining silver. The demise of Chloride began with the Silver Panic of 1893 and was hastened by the presidential election of 1896, which resulted in a drastic decline in silver prices.
Many of Chloride's original structures still stand. The old Pioneer Store is now a museum; next door the former Monte Cristo Saloon and Dance Hall houses a gift shop and gallery featuring work by local artists. Both are open seven days a week from 10am-4pm. Harry Pye's cabin is available as a vacation rental. Other landmarks in this tiny town (population 11) include the 200-year-old Hanging Tree and Doodle Dum, the workshop of longtime resident Cassie Hobbs (19041989).
Hillsboro was born in 1877 when gold was found at the nearby Opportunity and Ready Pay mines. Despite fierce Indian attacks, the town grew, becoming the county seat in 1884. Area mines produced more than $6 million in gold and silver, and by 1907 the town had a population of 1,200.
Today, this charming, peaceful village of a hundred souls, which boasts flower-filled yards and old cottonwoods lining the main street, offers many enticements, including gift shops; restaurants; artist studios and galleries; the remains of the old county courthouse; the Black Range Museum; Union Church; and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Hillsboros Heritage Day is held annually on the day before Mother's Day.
Kingston was founded when a rich lode of silver ore was discovered at the Solitaire in 1882. It grew rapidly and was the largest town in the territory—and one of the wildest in the Wild West. The town soon offered all of the trappings of civilization and culture. Numerous hotels played host to the likes of Mark Twain, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Black Jack Ketchum. Stage lines served all major routes, and the town supported twenty-three saloons,some of which advertised fresh oysters 24 hours a day! The town also had 14 grocery and general stores; a brewery; three newspapers; and an Opera House where the Lillian Russell Troupe once performed. Albert Bacon Fall and Ed Doheny of the Teapot Dome Scandal got their start in Kingston.
From those glory days, the old Assay Office and the remains of the Victorio Hotel have been renovated as private residences. The Black Range Lodge, a bed and breakfast, offers accommodations in a setting of massive stonewalls and log-beamed ceilings constructed from the ruins of what once was Pretty Sam's Casino. Some Kingston residents offer straw-bale and natural building workshops