Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

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

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

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

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

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.