Places apojudy Wants to Go

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

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

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

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

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This is one really big nut.

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

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Step back in time at this 19th-century kiosk.

The history of drinking is told through 1,800 cups, chalices, and glasses at this exhibit.

Come for the bread-themed puppet show, stay for the buffet.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

This museum documents the ancient practice of salt production in Figueira da Foz.

Some 4,000 individual tiles make up this striking blue billboard from the golden age of air travel.