Places dc2az1 Wants to Go

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

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

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

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