Places j3taylor Wants to Go

This remote desert watering hole has a connection to a curious chapter of American history.

This oasis-like spring in the Sonoran Desert is home to unique, endangered species.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

An incredible airplane graveyard sits outside this small museum dedicated to preserving aviation history.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

The lost ruins of the forgotten ferry lie hidden beneath the silt.

This Old West prison built into the side of a cliff was said to be inescapable.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

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

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

The shop's owner has spent decades in the desert wearing nothing but a strategically placed sock.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

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

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.