Places plt4000 Wants to Go

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.

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

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

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

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

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

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

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

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

A watercolor recreation of a famous fresco unearthed at Pompeii.

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

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

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.