Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ethyl the Whale
Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.
Telluride, Colorado
This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.
Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Ouray, Colorado
A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.
Durango, Colorado
A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.
Dolores, Colorado
A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.
Denver, Colorado
A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Tucson, Arizona
Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Tucson, Arizona
This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."
Tucson, Arizona
Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.
Tucson, Arizona
Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.
Tucson, Arizona
This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.