Places plt4000 Wants to Go

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

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

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

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

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.

A replica that won't float away.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

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

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

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

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

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

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

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.