Places BlackCloud Wants to Go

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

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

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

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

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

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