Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

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

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

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

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

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

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

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

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

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

Outsider Art Community.

This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.

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

A mistaken marker makes an erroneous claim along the historic Old Divide Road.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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