Places AKAnderswo Wants to Go

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

What is the Thing?

An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.

Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

These strange carved boulders in a forested canyon resemble tiny stone villages.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

Hidden in the Chihuahuan Desert resides an amazing collection of petroglyphs.