Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

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

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

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

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

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

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

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

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

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

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

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

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

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

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.