Places aeubanks Wants to Go

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

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.

A mural of the Virgin of Guadalupe painted on the rock wall by canyon's religious namesake.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.