Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. There is no turning back after a maiden journey into New Mexico’s badlands. Considering the minimal vegetation, ...

Touchstones to the known world begin to melt away with each step upon crossing the threshold of the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. In the labyrinthine desert dreamscape, weathered rocks rise out of the ...

Bisti Badlands is a necropolis of sandstone temples and ziggurats and a maze of passageways painted with striated tinctures. It is arguably the finest community of badlands in the San Juan Basin of ...

It's a wilderness area that looks like a scene from out of this world. Below the surface and the beauty, lies a dream for scientists. Watch the video above as Todd Kurtz brings you this week's ...

Hike information has been adapted from “Wandering in the Clear Light of New Mexico” by David Ryan and from the 3rd edition of “60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Albuquerque” by David Ryan and Stephen ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Located in the arid desert of northwestern New Mexico, the Bisti Badlands ...

The Bisti Badlands in northwestern New Mexico look like another planet. Sandstone-capped hoodoos fill canyons like a forest of altars to strange gods. An easy day trip from Farmington, N.M., the ...

FARMINGTON, N.M. — The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is hidden a few miles south of Farmington. The location was known to be a swamp about 65 million years ago. It was a home to prehistoric animals. It’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BISTI/DE-NA-ZIN WILDERNESS AREA, N.M. — This collection of boulders may be called the Cracked Egg Factory, but the rock in front of me looks more like a ...