Places wesping Wants to Go

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

This sculpture is intended to reset a person’s creativity.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

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

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

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This is one really big nut.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

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

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

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

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

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

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.

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.