Places istnbl Wants to Go

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

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

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

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

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

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

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

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.