Places Carma Wants to Go

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

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

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

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

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

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 serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

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

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

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

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

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

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

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

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.