Places Kanashii Wants to Go

A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

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

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

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

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

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

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

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

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

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

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

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

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