Places embeekrais Wants to Go

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

A 1930’s courtroom where John Dillinger and his gang went before a judge.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

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Previously a hot spring, this park remains a site of unique history, wildlife, and geology.

This trippy wonderland is the result of one man's obsessive, decades long passion project.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

The final resting place for an internet icon.

This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.

These petroglyphs created by ancient Arizonians have withstood centuries of exposure to the elements.

Arizona's first government hub is a rustic cabin now preserved as part of a historical museum.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

An important piece of history from mankind's journey to the moon sits in the lobby of a government science lab.

Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.

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

A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.

Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.