Places Smurphinator Wants to Go

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

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

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

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

At this research institute, the chile is king.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

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