Long-long time ago Spanish conquistadors were looking for legendary El Dorado, but instead of Land of Gold they discovered New Mexico. At the first sight of Pueblo Indian settlements, they thought they finally got to famous Seven Cities of Gold of Cibola. Their dreams were gone with the wind very soon but towns and cities still stand…

All photos from Albuquerque & Santa Fe, New Mexico

It is quite an occasion when meteorite hits the Earth, it is very rare when it leaves a large crater. We stopped by one of them in Arizona. And another one of them we know of is in Kiev, Ukraine, but it is invisible because the great Dnieper river flows by. The group of Apollo astronauts spent a few weeks down there in Arizona Crater training for the Moon landing…

All photos from Meteorite Crater, Arizona »