Places johncterryc Wants to Go

Old-style open-air cages bringing you from Gubbio’s city center to the San'Ubaldo Basilica.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

An underground venue, buried for 200 years, now open as a unique whisky tasting venue.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.

Hike up to this ancestral grain storage site, but don't touch.

The remains of a large pueblo village constructed by the Salado culture, who occupied the region more than 600 years ago.

Out of a desire to feed hungry soldiers, a franchise-altering idea was born.

The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

The exit of the largest prisoner-of-war escape attempt on American soil during World War II.

A colony of Mexican free-tailed bats live under the bridge and take flight at sundown all summer long.

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.

The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

These petroglyphs created by ancient Arizonians have withstood centuries of exposure to the elements.

A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.