Places ladyferns Wants to Go

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

This is one really big nut.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.