Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

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

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

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

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

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

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

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

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

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

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

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

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