Alamogordo punches above its weight for a small desert town. The big draw is White Sands just down the road, but the town itself has a handful of genuinely worthwhile stops — a century-old zoo, an oddball toy train museum, a Space History museum with actual hardware, and a dramatic canyon park just to the south. PistachioLand to the north and the Atari landfill to the south are for the connoisseurs. None of them will take more than a couple of hours, so it's easy to combine several in a day.