New Mexico
Ra Paulette's Hand-Carved Caves
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Cedar Crest, New Mexico
Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.
Baturiti, Indonesia
An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.
Manacapuru, Brazil
An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Vienna, Austria
This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.
Forres, Scotland
A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.
Invergordon, Scotland
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Pleasantville, Pennsylvania
The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Where the oil industry began.
Buinen, Netherlands
The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.
Rome, Italy
This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.
Barcelona, Spain
A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.
Hamburg, Germany
A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Moires, Greece
Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.
Santorini, Greece
A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.