Places JaySky Wants to Go

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

A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

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

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

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

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

An urban laboratory.

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

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

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

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

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

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A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

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

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

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

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

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

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

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

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