Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

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

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

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

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

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

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

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

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.