Places Bartender Bea Wants to Go

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

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

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Outsider Art Community.

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

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

They founded the game company that made Clue, Monopoly, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, and Sorry!

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum.