Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

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

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

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

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

The handsome statue is a tribute to the post riders who traversed 52 miles of tough Arizona terrain.

This small memorial is dedicated to the Perryville State Prison firefighters who perished fighting the Dude Fire in 1990.

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

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.