Places Pupuliini Wants to Go

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

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

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

This cultural center showcases what may be the oldest ongoing community in all of North America.

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

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

The Branch Davidian compound known as the Mount Carmel Center became the site of one of the most controversial law enforcement operations in U.S. history.

The first commercial phone line west of St. Louis was installed thanks to a group of Cherokee businessmen.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

The final resting place of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Tatanka Iyotaka, commonly known by the English translation Sitting Bull.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

A public art project at Bde Maka Ska that educates visitors on Dakota history.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The last planned Soviet city was built for the former residents of Prypiat after the Chornobyl disaster.

Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.

How this choice of tombstone came to be is still a mystery.

A haunting memorial to those who lost their lives to the Nazi regime lies hidden in the woods.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

Legend says lovers who hold hands while venturing along this stone jetty and kiss at the end will remain together forever.

This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.