Places smf3805 Wants to Go

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

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

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

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

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

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

The handsome statue is a tribute to the post riders who traversed 52 miles of tough Arizona terrain.

A giant mascot, a car bomb, and the mafia mingle in the history of a defunct restaurant chain.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.