Places clpartin Wants to Go

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

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

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

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

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

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

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

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

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

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

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

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

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

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