Places christiemedwards Wants to Go

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

The remains of this rugged homestead ranch offer a brief glimpse into a bygone era.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

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

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

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

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

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

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

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

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

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

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.