Places kellympls Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

An urban laboratory.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.