Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

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

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.

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

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

The remains of a historic ranch house that witnessed the Civil War battle dubbed the “Gettysburg of the West.”

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

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

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

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

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

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