Places dshimizu Wants to Go

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

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

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

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

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

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

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.