Places kennethkiwicz Wants to Go

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

This is one really big nut.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

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

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

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

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

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

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

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

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.