Places heathersfour Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

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

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

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

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

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

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

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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

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

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