Places Clevertrousers Wants to Go

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

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

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

This is one really big nut.

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

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.