Places thecoolhobbit Wants to Go

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

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.

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.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

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

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

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

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

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

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

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

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

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

This prehistoric karst cave is situated near a working ranch and historic warm springs.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.