Places alessandralee Wants to Go

The world's largest "Christmas tree" is illuminated by hundreds of lights stretching 2,000 feet up the slope of Mount Ingino.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Inside this garden, visitors are offered a glimpse into how inhabitants of the region survived centuries ago.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

An out of this world experience.

A unique collection of artistic rides

Over 100 lasers, including huge ones that look straight off a sci-fi set.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.