New Mexico

5 places with something worth saying about them.

• Capulin Volcano National Monument When Capulin erupted, the lava didn't come out the top — it leaked out a weak spot at the base called the boca.
• Clayton, New Mexico When the outlaw Black Jack Ketchum was hanged in Clayton in 1901, the rope took his head off.
• Rabbit Ear Mountain The twin peaks north of Clayton were the only reliable promise of water for thirty miles of the Santa Fe Trail.
• Raton Downtown Historic District In 1914 the largest hotel in New Mexico stood on a corner in Raton, with four hundred rooms.
• Sugarite Canyon State Park A coal town of nearly a thousand people stood in this canyon, and now a hiking trail runs through its ruins.