Places daveschaaf Wants to Go

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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.

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

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

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

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

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

The world's first fish doorbell monitors this water passageway.

Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

A whimsical bridge uses saxophones to pay tribute to two great men and the European Union.

Visitors can still take a train to this former train station turned museum.

This recreated Roman outpost stands above its buried predecessor.

The imposing structure was originally established in 1580 as a military stronghold.