Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

An unconventional monument to one of America's largest landowners.

The largest known adobe office building, emulating in style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.

This cave column thousands of feet below the earth’s surface is rightly named for one of the most colorful park rangers in history.

This museum shaped like an inflating balloon celebrates the sport’s buoyant achievements.

A surprise blip of color and kitsch.

This century-old museum showcases New Mexico’s history through arts and crafts.

Once a mining boom town, Mogollon’s well-preserved buildings are tucked away in the mountains of the Gila National Forest.

One of the world’s most powerful corporations was established on a random Albuquerque street corner.

This rural museum is home to more than 50 local desert reptiles and the world's largest snake bite kit collection.

It’s hard to believe this hostile landscape was once a health resort.

One of the few slot canyons in New Mexico, this area is fantastic for hiking, camping, and stargazing.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

This roadside sculpture garden in New Mexico venerates Mother Earth and outsider art.

John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, and other Hollywood actors have resided in this picturesque Route 66 hotel.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

A unique gallery filled with art that is interactive, accessible, and generates a ripple effect of creativity

Volunteers spent years restoring a vintage steam locomotive to operating condition.

Catch two 18-foot-tall ranchers mid-brawl as you drive by on Highway 285.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.