Places littlekelle Wants to Go

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

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

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

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

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

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

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

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

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

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

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