On the road between Carrizozo and San Antonio, there are the Malpais. You are driving along seeing typical desert...
Then you come across a sign for the Valley of the fires..
Then you see the terrain change and begin to notice the black lava. The Spanish explorers who came here called this the Malpais - which means Badlands.
Close up you can see the pooling patterns in the lava that has been here for a thousand years. 
