Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

The symbol was surreptitiously built into the river bank by German prisoners of war.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

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

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

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

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

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.

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

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

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

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

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

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.