Places rsowton Wants to Go

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

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

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

This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

The building stands within a quiet, postcard-perfect New Mexico village.

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

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

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

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

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.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

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

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

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

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.