Places ashleypinnick Wants to Go

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

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

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 shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

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

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

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

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

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

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

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

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.