Places embeekrais Wants to Go

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

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

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

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

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

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

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

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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