Places nils Wants to Go

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

The largest known adobe office building, emulating in style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.

This century-old museum showcases New Mexico’s history through arts and crafts.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

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

Step back in time at an outdoor living history museum where New Mexico's cultural traditions come alive.

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

Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.

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

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

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

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

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

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

This ranch on the banks of the Rio Grande is home to a little-known LGBTQ history of Mary Cabot Wheelwright, Marie Chabot, and two-spirit Navajo weaver Hastiin Klah.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

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

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

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

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.