Places ElkFlat Wants to Go

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

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

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

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

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

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

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

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

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

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

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

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

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

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

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

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.