Places aowens196651 Wants to Go

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

A metal menagerie fills the yard of this museum and gallery, the work of Montana artist Bill Ohrmann.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

It is intended to take one back to a stripped-down simplicity, to spend extended time both inside and out, and absorb the natural drama of the Upper Rio Grande Valley.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

A series of silhouettes that recall the great cattle drives of the 19th-century.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.