Places metalunamutant Wants to Go

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

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

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

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.