Places azneva Wants to Go

Hike up to this ancestral grain storage site, but don't touch.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Nothing to see here.

At one time, it was the second deepest mine shaft on the planet!

Much of the spectacular canyon followed over a century ago by the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad is now accessible to cars.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

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

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

This old army installation has worn many hats throughout its history.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

The only undammed section of the Columbia River in the United States has been preserved, ironically, by its proximity to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

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

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

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