Places craziereachday Wants to Go

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

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

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

From a T-rex to a teapot, a cast of artificial fossils illustrates New Mexico's history.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.

A waterfall and cave near Arroyo Seco that inspired the writings of D. H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, and Mabel Dodge Luhan.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.