Places Cactam Wants to Go

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

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

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

This love letter to Poland serves bracing dill pickle soup and plump pierogis.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

The evocative ruins of a medieval village.

Explore an eerie, abandoned medieval citadel.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

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

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

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