Places donnatalarico Wants to Go

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

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

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

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

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

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

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

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

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

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

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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