Ernie Pyle was a world-famous journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting during World War II. His Albuquerque home is much more than a National Historic Landmark. Even if you’ve visited dozens of historic sites, you haven’t seen one like this.

Some urban neighborhoods view their histories as private matters. Not Huning Highland. This historic district only a few blocks east of downtown Albuquerque wears its colorful and sometimes scandalous past like a badge of honor. 

The ancient Acoma Pueblo village known as Sky City sits atop a 376 foot tall mesa surrounded by a surreal landscape of soaring buttes, rock pinnacles and piles of gigantic boulders. 

You can travel between Albuquerque and Santa Fe on I-25. But if you have time, consider giving the 54-mile stretch of NM 14 known as the Turquoise Trail a go.