Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

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

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

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.