Places ladyleamarie Wants to Go

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

Mysterious markers have been giving the public a lesson in dendrochronology for over a century.

This ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande is home to a little-known LGBTQ history of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Marie Chabot, and two-spirit Navajo weaver Hastiin Klah.

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

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

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.