Places barbarapreston Wants to Go

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

An out of this world experience.

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

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

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

These petroglyphs created by ancient Arizonians have withstood centuries of exposure to the elements.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.