Places chrisawhite00 Wants to Go

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

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

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.

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

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

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

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

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

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

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

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

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.