Places Beth Ogando Wants to Go

This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.

This quiet chapel was central to a community of settlers who reclaimed an abandoned fort.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

This bomb shelter-themed bar has barely changed since it opened.

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

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

Millions of years of erosion created the feature for which this rock formation is aptly named.

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

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

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

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.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.