Places johncterryc Wants to Go

An urban laboratory.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

A sculpture of a courtesan towers above Lake Constance, recalling a church scandal.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.