Places annakovach Wants to Go

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

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

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

This 39-foot-tall version of a Hopi figure stands in Arizona.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

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

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Four tons of weapons merge together in a memorial against violence.

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

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

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

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