Places JCinSTL Wants to Go

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

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

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

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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

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

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

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

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

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

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

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.