Places bleachedrhodopsin Wants to Go

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

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

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

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

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

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

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

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

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

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

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

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

An urban laboratory.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.