Places bradleygard Wants to Go

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Local artists have long claimed these highway pylons as a place to celebrate Mexican-American history through artwork.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

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

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A surprise blip of color and kitsch.

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

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

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.

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

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.

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

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.