Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

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

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

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

Memorial built in 1922 in remembrance of WWI casualties.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.