Places seamusemmett Wants to Go

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

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

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

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

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

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.

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

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

The site of Billy the Kid’s most famous escape and the end to the Lincoln County War.

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

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

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

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

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

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

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

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