Places davidchute11 Wants to Go

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.

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

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

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

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

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

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

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

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

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

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

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

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

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

Home to a seasonal waterfall and swimming hole in the Ouachita Mountains.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.