Places wesping Wants to Go

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

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

The ruins of this abandoned fort now stand as a picturesque reminder of America's march West.

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

One man’s passion for gas stations is on display along the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

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.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

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

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

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

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

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

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

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

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.