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Tinkertown Museum
A town worth a whole day · Sandia Park, United States
Photo: osseous · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.5★Rating
375Reviews
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Apr–OctBest time
The experience
One man's 40-year obsession: 20,000+ hand-carved miniatures inside rambling walls made of 50,000 glass bottles, on the Turquoise Trail in the Sandia foothills — coin-operated dioramas animate a tiny western town.
A lifetime's folk art behind a bottle wall on a mountain back road, kept alive by family, not tourism.
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It's only worth the detour Apr–Oct. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Sandia Park, United States · Albuquerque, New Mexico. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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