Places escapechaos Wants to Go

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

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

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

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

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

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

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

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

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

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.