Places spike Wants to Go

A historic jail preserves etchings from over a century of incarcerated people in a town with a rough and tumble past.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

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

Aliens and monsters lurk inside this museum dedicated to one man's lifelong adoration of all things sci-fi.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.