Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

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

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

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.

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.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

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

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

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

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.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

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

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

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

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

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