Places aardvarkgod Wants to Go

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

An urban laboratory.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.