Places breaingram Wants to Go

At this research institute, the chile is king.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

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

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

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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

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

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

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

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

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

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

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.