Places sarakreep Wants to Go

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

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

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

For 60 years, skiers have calmed their nerves with cocktails hidden along these slopes.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

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

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

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

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

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

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

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

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

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

At this research institute, the chile is king.