Places aRedLetterLife Wants to Go

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

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

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.

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

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

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

This is one really big nut.

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

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

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

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

The former stronghold of the Malla Dynasty has remained virtually unchanged since the 17th century.

A well preserved medieval fortress in Vojvodina.

Enormous ants wielding giant pine needles guard a Stockholm real estate company's office.

The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

Standing in this historic plaza is a statue representing one of Cuba's most iconic literary characters.