Places embeekrais Wants to Go

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

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

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

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

A nature and cultural preserve named for its multitude of petroglyphs carved by the Northern Sinagua people.

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

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

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

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

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

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

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

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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.