Places grantavery Wants to Go

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

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

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

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

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

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

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

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

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

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

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

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

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

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

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

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

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

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

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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