Marfa, Texas
Faith Alive Cowboy Church Radio Station
Not everything is bigger in Texas.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Marfa, Texas
Wrong Store
This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.
Marfa, Texas
Hotel Paisano
A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."
Balmorhea, Texas
Balmorhea State Park Pool
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Lechuguilla Cave
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
El Paso, Texas
Rosa's Cantina
One of El Paso's oldest dives may have inspired the classic Marty Robbins song.
El Paso, Texas
Casa de Azucar
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
El Paso, Texas
John Wesley Hardin's Grave
A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.
El Paso, Texas
Lincoln Park aka Chicano Park
Local artists have long claimed these highway pylons as a place to celebrate Mexican-American history through artwork.
El Paso, Texas
Chamizal National Memorial
This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.
El Paso, Texas
Lhakhang Cultural Exhibit
A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.
El Paso, Texas
Magoffin Home
El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.
El Paso, Texas
Sunland Park Dinosaur Tracks
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
Carrizozo, New Mexico
'Intersection Point Zero'
This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio
This is one really big nut.
Bosque, New Mexico
Bernardo Waterfowl Area
The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.
Isleta Village Proper, New Mexico
Saint Augustine Catholic Church of Isleta
This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.
Belen, New Mexico
Through the Flower Art Space
A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Bradbury Science Museum
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Fairplay, Colorado
South Park City
This open-air reconstruction of an Old West town, a cross between a theme park and a museum, provides an immersive historical experience.
Alamosa County, Colorado
Zapata Falls
A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.
Alamosa, Colorado
Medano Creek
A picturesque (all-natural!) beach in a landlocked state.
Longmont, Colorado
Saul the Sticker Ball
The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.
