Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

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

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

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

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.