Places indust20 Wants to Go

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

This Native American settlement dates back to the Pueblo II period.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.