Places WhimsyCat03 Wants to Go

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

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

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

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

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

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

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

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

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

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

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

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

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

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

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

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

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

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

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

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.