Places dshimizu Wants to Go

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

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

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

It is intended to take one back to a stripped-down simplicity, to spend extended time both inside and out, and absorb the natural drama of the Upper Rio Grande Valley.

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

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

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

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

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

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

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

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.