Places Magicmarker Wants to Go

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

Part arcade, part museum, this collection features vintage and modern pinball machines.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

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

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

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

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

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

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

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

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.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.